Diversity of free-living and attached bacteria in offshore western Mediterranean waters as depicted by analysis of genes encoding 16S rRNA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 514-522

  Acinas, Silvia G ^a   Antón, Josefa ^b   Rodríguez Valera, Francisco ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; WATER;

BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTEROMONAS MACLEODII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032974993     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.514-522.1999     Document Type: Article

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