Screening of a fosmid library of marine environmental genomic DNA fragments reveals four clones related to members of the order Planctomycetales

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3075-3078

  Vergin, Kevin L ^a   Urbach, Ena ^a   Stein, Jeffery L ^b   DeLong, Edward F ^c   Lanoil, Brian D ^a   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLANCTOMYCETALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIROCHETE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PIRELLULA; PLANCTOMYCES; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0031927992     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.3075-3078.1998     Document Type: Article

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