Characterization of the 18s rRNA gene for designing universal eukaryote specific primers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hadziavdic, Kenan ^a   Lekang, Katrine ^a   Lanzen, Anders ^a,b,c   Jonassen, Inge ^a,b   Thompson, Eric M ^a   Troedsson, Christofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research AS   (Norway)

^c NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA; RNA 18S; TITANIUM; PRIMER DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROKARYOTE; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; EUKARYOTA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 84895735742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087624     Document Type: Article

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