Bacterial diversity in different regions of gastrointestinal tract of Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica)

MicrobiologyOpen

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 415-426

  Pawar, Kiran D ^a,d   Banskar, Sunil ^a   Rane, Shailendra D ^a   Charan, Shakti S ^a   Kulkarni, Girish J ^a   Sawant, Shailesh S ^a   Ghate, Hemant V ^b   Patole, Milind S ^a   Shouche, Yogesh S ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CELL SCIENCE   (India)

^b MODERN COLLEGE OF ARTS   (India)

^c Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bacterial diversity; Giant African Snail; Quantitative PCR; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACHATINA FULICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINE; KURTHIA GIBSONII; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL; STOMACH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84887613158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.38     Document Type: Article

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