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Use of Alu Element Containing Minigenes to Analyze Circular RNAs
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Use of a blocking primer allows selective amplification of bacterial DNA from microalgae cultures
Shane M Powell1, Christopher C Chapman, Michel Bermudes
1Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre and the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. shane.powell@utas.edu.au
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|May 22, 2012
Abstract:
The production of algae is a crucial component of many aquaculture systems and the role of bacteria in this process is an important although complex one. We report the development of a new blocking primer that allowed PCR amplification of bacterial DNA in the presence of algal chloroplast DNA.

