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spellingShingle Lu, Ting, Stroot, Peter G., Oerther, Daniel B., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment, Ecology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Food Science, Biotechnology
title Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment
title_full Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment
title_fullStr Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment
title_full_unstemmed Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment
title_short Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment
title_sort reverse transcription of 16s rrna to monitor ribosome-synthesizing bacterial populations in the environment
title_unstemmed Reverse Transcription of 16S rRNA To Monitor Ribosome-Synthesizing Bacterial Populations in the Environment
topic Ecology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Food Science, Biotechnology
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.02970-08