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laetitialeclerc.bsky.social
@laetitialeclerc.bsky.social
Ph.D in interaction biology (plants-insects-microbiota) looking for a postdoc position, passionate about plant immune response to biotic stresses 🌱🧫🐛
I am pleased to share my latest article presenting a new rpoB-based method to improve bacterial microbiota analysis in samples with low bacterial DNA or high host DNA 🐛🧫

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Nested PCR to optimize rpoB metabarcoding for low-concentration and host-associated bacterial DNA | Microbiology Spectrum
In this study, we improved an existing method for characterizing host-associated bacterial microbiota using a genetic marker targeting a specific subregion of the rpoB gene. The two-step PCR approach ...
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August 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM