What are the best primer for Methanogen amplification ?

01 January 1970 1 6K Report

hello everyone , i want to check the diversity of Methanogen of a particular soil , please suggest me any idea or pipeline for this analysis, and also suggest me a particular primer for the amplification of methanogen.

Abhijeet Singh

16S primers for Archaea or mcrA primers.

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