A novel δ-subdivision proteobacterial lineage from the lower ocean surface layer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1441-1448

  Wright, Terah D ^a   Vergin, Kevin L ^a   Boyd, Philip W ^b   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL CLONE; CELL LINEAGE; GENE CLUSTER; HYBRIDIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0030988067     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1441-1448.1997     Document Type: Article

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