PCR-based detection of mobile genetic elements in total community DNA

Kornelia Smalla1, Ellen Krögerrecklenfort1, Holger Heuer1, Winnie Dejonghe2, Eva Top2, Mark Osborn3,4, Jessica Niewint5, Christoph Tebbe5, Michelle Barr6, Mark Bailey6, Alicia Greated7, Christopher Thomas7, Sarah Turner8, Peter Young8, Dora Nikolakopoulou9, Amalia Karagouni9, Anneke Wolters10, Jan Dirk van Elsas10, Karine Drønen11, Ruth Sandaa11, Sara Borin12, Julia Brabhu13, Elisabeth Grohmann13 and Patricia Sobecky14

Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Institut fü Pflanzenvirologie, Mikrobiologie und biologische Sicherheit, Messeweg 11–12, D-38104 Braunschweig, , Germany1
University of Ghent, , Belgium2
GBF, Braunschweig, , Germany3
University of Essex, , UK4
FAL, Braunschweig, , Germany5
NERC-Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, <, UK6
University of Birmingham, , UK7
University of York, , UK8
University of Athens, , Greece9
IPO-DLO, Wageningen, , The Netherlands10
University of Bergen, , Norway11
University of Milano, , Italy12
Technical University Berlin, , Germany13
School of Biology Georgia, Atlanta, , USA14

For correspondence. Kornelia Smalla. Tel: +49 531 299 3814. Fax: +49 531 299 3013. e-mail: k.smalla{at}bba.de