Pyrosequencing of Chaperonin-60 (cpn60) Amplicons as a Means of Determining Microbial Community Composition

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 733, Issue , 2011, Pages 143-158

  Schellenberg, John ^b   Links, Matthew G ^b   Hill, Janet E ^b   Hemmingsen, Sean M ^b   Peters, Geoffrey A ^b   Dumonceaux, Tim J ^a  

^a SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chaperonin 60; cpn60; Metagenomic profiling; Microbial communities; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; CHAPERONIN 60; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; MICROBIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79960068468     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-089-8_10     Document Type: Chapter

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