| entomopathogenic nematodes, phoretic paenibacillus spp., and the use of real time quantitative pcr to explore soil food webs in florida citrus groves. | quantitative real-time pcr (qpcr) is a powerful tool to detect and quantify species of cryptic organisms such as bacteria, fungi and nematodes from soil samples. as such, qpcr offers new opportunities to study the ecology of soil habitats by providing a single method to characterize communities of diverse organisms from a sample of dna. here we describe molecular tools to detect and quantify two bacteria (paenibacillus nematophilus and paenibacillus sp.) phoretically associated with entomopathog ... | 2011 | 21723288 |