The Choice of PCR Primers Has Great Impact on Assessments of Bacterial Community Diversity and Dynamics in a Wastewater Treatment Plant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Fredriksson, Nils Johan ^a   Hermansson, Malte ^b   Wilén, Britt Marie ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VERRUCOMICROBIUM; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84885047742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076431     Document Type: Article

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