Soil Microbial Community Analysis using Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice E. Thies
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Restriction Fragment ◽  
Fragment Length ◽  
Soil Microbial Community ◽  
Community Analysis ◽  
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms ◽  
Microbial Community Analysis ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Length Polymorphisms ◽  
Restriction Fragment Length

scholarly journals Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis Program, a Web-Based Research Tool for Microbial Community Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 3616-3620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence L. Marsh ◽  
Paul Saxman ◽  
James Cole ◽  
James Tiedje
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism ◽  
Restriction Fragment ◽  
Length Polymorphism ◽  
Fragment Length ◽  
Fragment Length Polymorphism ◽  
Community Analysis ◽  
Microbial Community Analysis ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Restriction Fragment Length

ABSTRACT Rapid analysis of microbial communities has proven to be a difficult task. This is due, in part, to both the tremendous diversity of the microbial world and the high complexity of many microbial communities. Several techniques for community analysis have emerged over the past decade, and most take advantage of the molecular phylogeny derived from 16S rRNA comparative sequence analysis. We describe a web-based research tool located at the Ribosomal Database Project web site (http://www.cme.msu.edu/RDP/html/analyses.html ) that facilitates microbial community analysis using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism of 16S ribosomal DNA. The analysis function (designated TAP T-RFLP) permits the user to perform in silico restriction digestions of the entire 16S sequence database and derive terminal restriction fragment sizes, measured in base pairs, from the 5′ terminus of the user-specified primer to the 3′ terminus of the restriction endonuclease target site. The output can be sorted and viewed either phylogenetically or by size. It is anticipated that the site will guide experimental design as well as provide insight into interpreting results of community analysis with terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms.

scholarly journals A genetic linkage map for the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, based on restriction fragment length polymorphisms

1995 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinrui Shi ◽  
David G. Heckel ◽  
Marian R. Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Linkage Map ◽  
Bombyx Mori ◽  
Restriction Fragment ◽  
Fragment Length ◽  
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms ◽  
Genetic Maps ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
Linkage Groups ◽  
Length Polymorphisms ◽  
Restriction Fragment Length

SummaryWe present data for the initial construction of a molecular linkage map for the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, based on 52 progeny from an F2 cross from a pair mating of inbred strains p50 and C108, using restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). The map contains 15 characterized single copy sequences, 36 anonymous sequences derived from a follicular cDNA library, and 10 loci corresponding to a low copy number retrotransposon, mag. The 15 linkage groups and 8 ungrouped loci account for 23 of the 28 chromosomes and span a total recombination length of 413 cM; 10 linkage groups were correlated with established classic genetic maps. Scoring data from Southern blots were analysed using two Pascal programs written specifically to analyse linkage data in Lepidoptera, where females are the heterogametic sex and have achiasmatic meiosis (no crossing-over). These first examine evidence for linkage by calculating the maximum lod score under the hypothesis that the two loci are linked over the likelihood under the hypothesis that the two loci assort independently, and then determine multilocus linkage maps for groups of putatively syntenic loci by calculating the maximum likelihood estimate of the recombination fractions and the log likelihood using the EM algorithm for a specified order of loci along the chromosome. In addition, the possibility of spurious linkage was exhaustively tested by searching for genotypes forbidden by the absence of crossing-over in one sex.

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