Culturability and in situ abundance of pelagic Bacteria from the North Sea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3044-3051

  Eilers, Heike ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; CULTIVATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH SEA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NORTH SEA;

ALTEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; ROSEOBACTER; VIBRIO;

EID: 0033916615     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.7.3044-3051.2000     Document Type: Article

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