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. 2007 Aug 24;73(20):6557–6565. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00779-07

TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains used for assessment of primer specificity and the CT values obtained in Q-PCR

Species (strain)a CT value obtained in Q-PCR withb:
ITS recABa gyrB recASm wzm 16S rRNA genes
Bacillus atrophaeus (ATCC 9372) 16 ± 0.17 18 ± 0.23 37 ± 0.12
Bacillus brevis (CBSC 15-4865)
Bacillus cereus (CBSC 15-4870) 36 ± 0.25 33 ± 0.12
Bacillus mycoides (CBSC 15-4871) 34 ± 0.23
Bacillus megaterium (CBSC 15-4900) 34 ± 0.20
Bacillus sphaericus (CBSC 15-4908) 36 ± 0.17 36 ± 0.45
Bacillus subtilis (CBSC 15-4921) 37 ± 0.28 36 ± 0.61
Bacillus thuringiensis (CBSC 15-4926) 35 ± 0.12
Bacillus badius (DSM 23) 36 ± 0.53 35 ± 0.32
Bacillus flexus (DSM 1320) 34 ± 0.42
Bacillus amyloliquifaciens (DSM 7) 35 ± 0.29
Bacillus mojavensis (DSM 9205)
Bacillus fusiformis (DSM 2898) 37 ± 0.30
Paenibacillus validus (DSM 3037) 38 ± 0.40
Paenibacillus chondroitinus (DSM 5051) 34 ± 0.10
Serratia marcescens (ATCC 13880) 17 ± 0.15 18 ± 0.43 16 ± 0.22 14 ± 0.11
Serratia ficaria (DSM 4569) 36 ± 0.33 38 ± 0.33 38 ± 0.22
Serratia fonticola (DSM 4576) 37 ± 0.13 35 ± 0.58
Serratia odorifora (DSM 4582)
Serratia plymuthica (DSM 4540) 36 ± 0.45 35 ± 0.34
Serratia quinivorans (DSM 4597) 36 ± 0.22
Serratia entomophila (DSM 12358)
Pseudomonas fluorescens (ATCC 13525) 36 ± 0.19 33 ± 0.39
a

ATCC, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA; CBSC, Carolina Biological Supply Company, Burlington, NC; DSM, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures.

b

CT values are mean values ± standard deviations of duplicates. −, no detection above threshold before cycle 40.