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SUBMITTER: Weller R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC182859 | biostudies-other | 1991 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Weller R R Weller J W JW Ward D M DM
Applied and environmental microbiology 19910401 4
Cloning and analysis of cDNAs synthesized from rRNAs is one approach to assess the species composition of natural microbial communities. In some earlier attempts to synthesize cDNA from 16S rRNA (16S rcDNA) from the Octopus Spring cyanobacterial mat, a dominance of short 16S rcDNAs was observed, which appear to have originated only from certain organisms. Priming of cDNA synthesis from small ribosomal subunit RNA with random deoxyhexanucleotides can retrieve longer sequences, more suitable for p ...[more]