Prerequisites for amplicon pyrosequencing of microbial methanol utilizers in the environment

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Kolb, Steffen ^a   Stacheter, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

FAD AO; Methylotroph; MtaC; MxaF'; NAD MDH; PQQ MDH; PQQ MDH2; XoxF

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ISOTOPE; METHANOL; METHANOL DEHYDROGENASE; OZONE; PROTEOME; PYRROLOQUINOLINEQUINONE; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMPLICON; ASCOMYCETES; BACILLI; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METAGENOME; METHANOGEN; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; UPREGULATION; YEAST;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLIBIUM;

EID: 84885395415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00268     Document Type: Review

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