Molecular community analysis of microbial diversity.
New technologies that avoid the need for either gene amplification (e.g. microarrays) or nucleic acid extraction (e.g. in situ PCR) have recently been implemented in microbial ecology. Together with new approaches for culturing microorganisms and an increased understanding of the biases of molecular methods, these techniques form the most exciting advances in this field during the past year.
Department of Marine Ecology NERI, Fredriksborgvej 399 4000, Roskilde, Denmark. ind@dmu.dk
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D017753:Ecosystem; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008828:Microbiological Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics
D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S