Investigating the ecology and evolution of cryptic marine nematode species through quantitative real-time PCR of the ribosomal ITS region

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 607-619

  Derycke, S ^a   Sheibani Tezerji, R ^a,b   Rigaux, A ^a   Moens, T ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Absolute quantification; Cryptic species; Internal transcribed spacer; QPCR; Relative quantification

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NEMATODA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NEMATODA;

EID: 84862214794     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03128.x     Document Type: Article

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