Figure 3.
Effect of hairpin structure on PCR specificity and efficiency. The RDS gene was amplified using either a linear (dotted line), or a hairpin (solid line) unlabeled reverse primer with the same fluorogenic linear forward primer (primer sets 3 and 4, Table 1). PCRs for both primer sets were performed using 100, 2, 0.08 and 0 ng of genomic DNA.