Resolving species level changes in a representative soil bacterial community using microfluidic quantitative PCR

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2017, Pages

  Kleyer, Hannah ^a   Tecon, Robin ^a   Or, Dani ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Absolute quantification; Community assembly; Fluidigm; Microbial ecology; Porous media; Real time PCR; Soil bacterial community; Synthetic community

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NESTED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

EID: 85032196112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02017     Document Type: Article

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