Comparison among amoA primers suited for quantification and diversity analyses of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in soil

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-98

  Shimomura, Yumi ^a   Morimoto, Sho ^a,b   Hoshino, Yuko Takada ^a   Uchida, Yoshitaka ^a   Akiyama, Hiroko ^a   Hayatsu, Masahito ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); amoA primer; DGGE; Primer degeneracy; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84858786171     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11230     Document Type: Article

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