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A G Speksnijder1, G A Kowalchuk, S De Jong, E Kline, J R Stephen, H J Laanbroek.
Abstract
A defined template mixture of seven closely related 16S-rDNA clones was used in a PCR-cloning experiment to assess and track sources of artifactual sequence variation in 16S rDNA clone libraries. At least 14% of the recovered clones contained aberrations. Artifact sources were polymerase errors, a mutational hot spot, and cloning of heteroduplexes and chimeras. These data may partially explain the high degree of microheterogeneity typical of sequence clusters detected in environmental clone libraries.Mesh:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11133483 PMCID: PMC92603 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.1.469-472.2001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Environ Microbiol ISSN: 0099-2240 Impact factor: 4.792