FIG. 4.

Histogram of the amount of fluorescence produced by each of six L. gasseri probes against seven Lactobacillus DNAs. A mixture of the six L. gasseri molecular probes was separately hybridized to 10 ng of each of seven genomic Lactobacillus DNAs, L. acidophilus, L. brevis, L. crispatus, L. delbrueckii, L. gasseri, L. jensenii, and L. plantarum. Each hybridization reaction was carried through our complete standard procedure. The fluorescence units corresponding to each molecular probe for each Lactobacillus DNA were recorded. The data are presented as a histogram.