A positive control for detecting heteroduplexes in dgge for microbial community fingerprinting

Texas Journal of Science

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-44

  Syvyk, Andrew ^a   Nalian, Armen ^a   Hume, Michael ^b   Martynova VanKley, Alexandra ^a  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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