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Diets of alewife or isolated strains of P. thiaminolyticus mixed in a semipurified diet and fed to lake trout Salvelinus namaycush have been shown to produce EMS in fry. We utilized quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) to aid in studies of the sources of P. thiaminolyticus and thiaminase I. Quantitative PCR assays were established to detect the thiaminase I gene of P. thiaminolyticus, the 16S rRNA gene from most species of bacteria, and the 16S rRNA gene specifically from P. thiaminolyticus and a few closely related taxa. The Q-PCR assays are linear over at least six orders of magnitude and can detect the thiaminase I gene of P. thiaminolyticus from as few as 1,000 P. thiaminolyticus cells\/g of sample or the Paenibacillus 16S rRNA gene from as few as 100 P. thiaminolyticus cells\/g of sample. The initial results from alewife viscera samples with high thiaminase activity yielded unexpectedly low densities of P. thiaminolyticus cells; Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus was detectable in 2 of 6 alewife viscera tested at densities on the order of 100 cells\/g out of 100,000,000 total bacterial cells\/g. The low numbers of P. thiaminolyticus detected suggest that alewives contain additional non\u2013P. thiaminolyticus sources of thiaminase activity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1577\/h07-054.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,14]],"date-time":"2009-12-14T21:18:54Z","timestamp":1260825534000},"page":"229-238","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Assays for a Bacterial Thiaminase I Gene and the Thiaminase-Producing Bacterium <i>Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Catherine A.","family":"Richter","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, 4200 New Haven Road, Columbia, Missouri, 65201, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maureen K.","family":"Wright-Osment","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental 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