Molecular community analysis of microbial diversity.

Abstract excerpt

New technologies that avoid the need for either gene amplification (e.g. microarrays) or nucleic acid extraction (e.g. in situ PCR) have recently been implemented in microbial ecology. Together with new approaches for culturing microorganisms and an increased understanding of the biases of molecular methods, these techniques form the most exciting advances in this field during the past year.

Topics

• Ecosystem
• Environmental Microbiology
• Genetic Variation
• Microbiological Techniques
• Molecular Biology
• Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• RNA, Ribosomal, 16S