Molecular techniques reveal wide phyletic diversity of heterotrophic microbes associated with Discodermia spp. (Porifera: Demospongiae)

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 329-341

  Lopez, Jose V ^a   McCarthy, Peter J ^a   Janda, Kathleen E ^a   Willoughby, Robin ^a   Pomponi, Shirley A ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bacterial symbionts; Discodermia; Gene sequencing; In vitro culture; Microbial diversity; Porifera

Indexed keywords

CYTOPHAGACEAE; GENE SEQUENCING; GENETIC DIVERSITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOHYL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL RNA;

BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE; SYMBIONT;

DISCODERMIA; PORIFERA;

EID: 0033497501     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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