Microbial Communities in the Chemocline of a Hypersaline Deep-Sea Basin (Urania Basin, Mediterranean Sea)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 5392-5402

  Sass, Andrea M ^a   Sass, Henrik ^a   Coolen, Marco J L ^a   Cypionka, Heribert ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0035651017     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.12.5392-5402.2001     Document Type: Article

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