SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6917, 2002, Pages 806-810

  Morris, Robert M ^a   Rappé, Michael S ^a   Connon, Stephanie A ^a   Vergin, Kevin L ^a   Siebold, William A ^a   Carlson, Craig A ^b   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; GENES; SEAWATER;

ORGANISM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL RNA; DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SEA WATER;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RNA; SEA SURFACE; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; UNITED STATES;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0037180794     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01240     Document Type: Article

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