Prokaryotic genetic diversity throughout the salinity gradient of a coastal solar saltern

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 349-360

  Benlloch, Susana ^a   López López, Arantxa ^a   Casamayor, Emilio O ^b,e   Øvreås, Lise ^c   Goddard, Victoria ^d   Daae, Frida Lise ^c   Smerdon, Gary ^d   Massana, Ramón ^b   Joint, Ian ^d   Thingstad, Frede ^c   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^b   Rodríguez Valera, Francisco ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; ENVIRONMENTAL SEQUENCE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SALINIBACTER RUBER; THERMOPLASMATALES;

RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0035984127     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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