Use of PCR with the specific primers for discrimination of Nosema bombycis

Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-48

  Kawakami, Yuji ^a   Iwano, Hidetoshi ^b   hatakeyama, Yoshinori ^b   Inoue, Tadashi ^b   Canning, Elizabeth U ^c   Ishihara, Ren ^c  

^a FCG Research Institute Incorporation   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

microsporidia; Nosema bombycis; PCR; Pleistophora; primers; Vairimorpha

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014887517     PISSN: 00372455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11416/kontyushigen1930.70.43     Document Type: Article

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