Random whole metagenomic sequencing for forensic discrimination of soils

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Khodakova, Anastasia S ^a   Smith, Renee J ^a   Burgoyne, Leigh ^a   Abarno, Damien ^a,b   Linacre, Adrian ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

DNA; SOIL;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EUKARYOTA; FORENSIC GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84905845450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104996     Document Type: Article

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