Culture-based and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of the bacterial community structure from the intestinal tracts of earthworms (eisenia fetida)

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 885-892

  Hong, Sung Wook ^a   Kim, In Su ^a   Lee, Ju Sam ^a   Chung, Kun Sub ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Bacterial community; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Earthworms

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA FRAGMENT;

AEROMONAS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EARTHWORM; ENTEROBACTER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEWANELLA; STREPTOMYCES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS SP.; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; EISENIA FETIDA; ENTEROBACTER; PAENIBACILLUS; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; SHEWANELLA; STREPTOMYCES; UNCULTURED CHLOROFLEXI BACTERIUM;

EID: 80053262876     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.1009.09041     Document Type: Article

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