Spatial heterogeneity of bacterial populations along an environmental gradient at a shallow submarine hydrothermal vent near Milos island (Greece)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3834-3842

  Sievert, Stefan M ^a   Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a,b   Muyzer, Gerard ^a,c   Ziebis, Wiebke ^a   Kuever, Jan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; NONHUMAN; SEA; SEDIMENT; SULFUR BACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

GREECE; MILOS ISLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032825173     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3834-3842.1999     Document Type: Article

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