Natural assemblages of marine proteobacteria and members of the Cytophaga-flavobacter cluster consuming low- and high-molecular-weight dissolved organic matter

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1692-1697

  Cottrell, Matthew T ^a   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HYPOTHESIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CYTOPHAGA; ECOSYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTER; FLAVOBACTERIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034068899     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1692-1697.2000     Document Type: Article

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