Evaluation of primers and PCR conditions for the analysis of 16S rRNA genes from a natural environment
Open Access
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 221 (2), 299-304
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(03)00218-0
Abstract
We investigated biases occurring in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rRNA genes from an environmental sample, by comparing thThis publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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