Population dynamics of chesapeake bay virioplankton: Total-community analysis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 231-240

  Wommack, K Eric ^a,c   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Hill, Russell T ^a,b   Chun, Jongsik ^a   Colwell, Rita R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; ULTRAFILTRATION; UNITED STATES; VIRION; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032959665     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.231-240.1999     Document Type: Article

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