Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan. sikeda@gene.tsukuba.ac.jp
Abstract:
A simple detection procedure was developed for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism and ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis for microbial community analysis. A fluorescence scanner enables generation of fingerprinting data in these methods within 3 h of obtaining PCR products of microbial communities.