Unveiling soil food web links: New PCR assays for detection of prey DNA in the gut of soil arthropod predators

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 943-945

  Eitzinger, Bernhard ^a   Micic, Aleksandra ^a   Körner, Maximilian ^a   Traugott, Michael ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Araneae; Chilopoda; COI; Collembola; Diptera; Gamasina; Isopoda; Molecular gut content analysis; Oribatida; Predator prey interactions; Staphylinidae

Indexed keywords

18S RDNA; ARANEAE; CHILOPODA; COI; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; GAMASINA; GUT CONTENTS; ISOPODA; ORIBATIDA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STAPHYLINIDAE;

SOILS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTHROPOD; DETECTION METHOD; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA; FOOD WEB; FOREST SOIL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATOR; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; GAMASIDA; GAMASINA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; LITHOBIOMORPHA; ONISCIDEA; ORIBATIDA; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 84873464809     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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