Phylogenetic diversity of ultraplankton plastid small-subunit rRNA genes recovered in environmental nucleic acid samples from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 294-303

  Rappé, Michael S ^a,b   Suzuki, Marcelino T ^a   Vergin, Kevin L ^a   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PLASMID VECTOR; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLASTID; RNA GENE; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031964656     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.294-303.1998     Document Type: Article

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