Exploring the diversity of Acinetobacter populations in river water with genus-specific primers and probes

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 51-58

  Xin, Fangfang ^a   Cai, Dijie ^a   Sun, Yuhua ^b   Guo, Dalei ^b   Wu, Zirong ^a   Jiang, Deming ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Kunshan Huake Institute of Biopolymer   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Acinetobacter diversity; Culture independent; Culturedependent; River water

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA; RIVER WATER; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BOUVETII; ACINETOBACTER GUILLOUIAE; ACINETOBACTER HAEMOLYTICUS; ACINETOBACTER JOHNSONII; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENE PROBE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84901359743     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.60.51     Document Type: Article

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