Functional genes to assess nitrogen cycling and aromatic hydrocarbon degradation: Primers and processing matter

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Ryan Penton, C ^a   Johnson, Timothy A ^a   Quensen, John F ^a   Iwai, Shoko ^b   Cole, James R ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic hydrocarbon; Clustering analysis; Functional genes; NifH; NirK; NirS; Nitrogen cycling; Primer specificity

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; DIBENZOFURAN; DIOXIN; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DENITRIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885417737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00279     Document Type: Article

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