Cross-kingdom amplification using bacteria-specific primers: complications for studies of coral microbial ecology.

Appl Environ Microbiol

University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, 140 7th Ave. S., St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA.

Published: December 2008

PCR amplification of pure bacterial DNA is vital to the study of bacterial interactions with corals. Commonly used Bacteria-specific primers 8F and 27F paired with the universal primer 1492R amplify both eukaryotic and prokaryotic rRNA genes. An alternative primer set, 63F/1542R, is suggested to resolve this problem.

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