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Diversity and abundance of uncultured cytophaga-like bacteria in the Delaware estuary.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2003
Kirchman David L, Yu Liying, Cottrell Matthew T
Abstract excerpt
The Cytophaga-Flavobacterium group is known to be abundant in aquatic ecosystems and to have a potentially unique role in the utilization of organic material. However, relatively little is known about the diversity and abundance of uncultured members of this bacterial group, in part because they are underrepresented in clone libraries of 16S rRNA genes. To circumvent a suspected bias in PCR, a primer set was...
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