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16S rRNA targeted DGGE fingerprinting of microbial communities.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2008
Tzeneva Vesela A, Heilig Hans G H J, van Vliet Wilma Akkermans, Akkermans Antoon D L, de Vos Willem M, Smidt Hauke
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The past decades have seen the staggering development of molecular microbial ecology as a discipline that uses the detection of so-called biomarkers to monitor microbial communities in environment samples. A variety of molecules can be used as biomarkers, including cell-wall components, proteins, lipids, DNA or RNA. Especially, the application of small subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and the corresponding genes have...
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