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Diversity of insect intestinal microflora.
Folia microbiologica - 1 Jan 2008
Mrázek J, Strosová L, Fliegerová K, Kott T, Kopecný J
Abstract excerpt
The influence of geographic location, season, age, and part of the digestive tract on bacterial diversity was evaluated on intestinal microflora of honeybees, wasps, and cockroaches using DGGE analysis. PCR-DGGE analyses with universal bacterial primers targeting 200-bp region of the 16S rDNA gene afforded the profile of complex bacterial DNA; specific primers were used to determine the profile of bifidobacteria...
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