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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2006

Evaluation of 23S rRNA PCR primers for use in phylogenetic studies of bacterial diversity.

Dana E Hunt, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Silvia G Acinas, Clement Gautier, Stefan Bertilsson, Martin F Polz

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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48 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Dana E HuntDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 48-421, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
Silvia G Acinas
Clement Gautier
Stefan Bertilsson
Martin F Polz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of a diverse set of 23S rRNA gene sequences enabled evaluation of the specificity of 39 previously published and 4 newly designed primers specific for bacteria. An extensive clone library constructed using an optimized primer pair resulted in similar gene richness but slightly differing coverage of some phylogenetic groups, compared to a 16S rRNA gene library from the same environmental sample.

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DNA PrimersPhylogenyBacteriaBase SequenceGene LibraryMolecular Sequence DataPolymerase Chain ReactionRNA, Ribosomal, 23SSequence Analysis, DNADNA PrimersRNA, Ribosomal, 23S

Identifiers

PMID16517676
PMCPMC1393206

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