Underestimation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria abundance by amplification bias in amoA-targeted qPCR

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 519-524

  Dechesne, Arnaud ^a   Musovic, Sanin ^a,b   Palomo, Alejandro ^a   Diwan, Vaibhav ^a   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84976536097     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12366     Document Type: Article

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