Distance and Character-Based Evaluation of the V4 Region of the 18S rRNA Gene for the Identification of Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Luddington, Ian A ^a   Kaczmarska, Irena ^a   Lovejoy, Connie ^b  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL DNA; ALGAL RNA; RNA 18S;

ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYMATOSIRALES; DIATOM; DNA BARCODING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MARKER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LITHODESMIALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROMOTER REGION; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THALASSIOSIRALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIATOMS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA PRIMERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE; CYMATOSIRALES; LITHODESMIALES; THALASSIOSIRALES;

EID: 84866707721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045664     Document Type: Article

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