Ecological succession of bacterial communities during conventionalization of Germ-Free mice

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2359-2366

  Gillilland III, Merritt G ^a   Erb Downward, John R ^a   Bassis, Christine M ^a   Shen, Michael C ^a   Toews, Galen B ^a   Young, Vincent B ^a   Huffnagle, Gary B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AMPLICONS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTEROIDES; C57BL/6 MICE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GERM-FREE MICE; PYROSEQUENCING; REASSEMBLY; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY;

GENES; MAMMALS; RNA;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RODENT; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDES; C57BL MOUSE; CECUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JEJUNUM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDES; CECUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENES, RRNA; GERM-FREE LIFE; JEJUNUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; ESCHERICHIA; MUS;

EID: 84861139714     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05239-11     Document Type: Article

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