Study of Genetic Diversity of Eukaryotic Picoplankton in Different Oceanic Regions by Small-Subunit rRNA Gene Cloning and Sequencing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2932-2941

  Díez, Beatriz ^a   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a   Massana, Ramon ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGUS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA GENE;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUNGI; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035407646     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.2932-2941.2001     Document Type: Article

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