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Quantitative detection of perchlorate-reducing bacteria by real-time PCR targeting the perchlorate reductase gene
Mamie Nozawa-Inoue1, Mercy Jien, Nicholas S Hamilton
1Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. minoue@ucdavis.edu
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|February 5, 2008
Abstract:
A quantitative real-time PCR assay targeting the pcrA gene, encoding the catalytic subunit of perchlorate reductase, detected pcrA genes from perchlorate-reducing bacteria in three different genera and from soil microbial communities. Partial pcrA sequences indicated differences in the composition of perchlorate-reducing bacterial communities following exposure to different electron donors.

