Divergent members of the bacterial division Verrucomicrobiales in a temperate freshwater lake

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-169

  Zwart, Gabriël ^a   Huismans, Raymond ^a   Van Agterveld, Miranda P ^a   Van de Peer, Yves ^b   De Rijk, Peter ^b   Eenhoorn, Hugo ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^c   Van Hannen, Erik J ^a   Gons, Herman J ^a   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bacterial diversity; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Freshwater pelagic zone; Phylogeny; Prosthecobacter; Verrucomicrobium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; LAKE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; LAKE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

VERRUCOMICROBIALES;

EID: 0031932022     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(97)00092-5     Document Type: Article

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