A quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the seagrass pathogen Labyrinthula zosterae

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1076-1081

  Bergmann, Nina ^a   Fricke, Birgit ^b   Schmidt, Martina C ^a   Tams, Verena ^a   Beining, Katrin ^a   Schwitte, Hildegard ^b   Boettcher, Anne A ^c   Martin, Daniel L ^c   Bockelmann, Anna Christina ^a   Reusch, Thorsten Bh ^a   Rauch, Gisep ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Labyrinthula; Pathogen quantification; QPCR; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAMENOPILE; ZOSTERACEAE;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; PLANT LEAVES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRAMENOPILES; ZOSTERACEAE;

LABYRINTHULA; LABYRINTHULA ZOSTERAE; PROTISTA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 80054077512     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03051.x     Document Type: Article

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