Design and application of an internal amplification control to improve dehalococcoides mccartyi 16S rRNA gene enumeration by qPCR

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 11131-11138

  Hatt, Janet K ^a   Ritalahti, Kirsti M ^b   Ogles, Dora M ^d   Lebrón, Carmen A ^e,f   Löffler, Frank E ^b,c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^d Microbial Insights   (United States)

^e NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; INTERNAL AMPLIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SIMULATED GROUND WATER;

AQUIFERS; ASSAYS; BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHYLENE; GENES; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MULTIPLEXING; RNA;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

GROUND WATER; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INHIBITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES MCCARTYI; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHLOROFLEXI; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GROUNDWATER; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84885109075     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4019817     Document Type: Article

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