Ribosomal RNA probes and microarrays: their potential use in assessing microbial biodiversity.

Abstract excerpt

The awareness that global biological diversity is affected by numerous, mostly human-made threats has made biodiversity assessment an important scientific issue for decades. Biodiversity includes different levels of complexity, such as community diversity, habitat diversity, genetic diversity, and species diversity. The application of molecular methods to answer ecological questions permits issues of biodiversity...

Topics

• Base Sequence
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Genetic Variation
• Genotype
• Microbiological Techniques
• Molecular Probe Techniques
• Nucleic Acid Hybridization
• Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• RNA Probes
• RNA, Ribosomal