What goes in must come out: Testing for biases in molecular analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Cotton, T E Anne ^a,b,c   Dumbrell, Alex J ^b   Helgason, Thorunn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA;

GENES, FUNGAL; MYCORRHIZAE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 84907482648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109234     Document Type: Article

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