Predator-Specific Enrichment of Actinobacteria from a Cosmopolitan Freshwater Clade in Mixed Continuous Culture

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2145-2155

  Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Posch, Thomas ^b   Šimek, Karel ^c   Vrba, Jaroslav ^c   Pernthaler, Annelie ^a   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a   Nübel, Ulrich ^a,d   Psenner, Roland ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Zoology and Limnology   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGAE; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035344215     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.5.2145-2155.2001     Document Type: Article

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