Differential growth response of colony-forming α- and γ-proteobacteria in dilution culture and nutrient addition experiments from Lake Kinneret (Israel), the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, and the Gulf of Eilat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 199-211

  Pinhassi, Jarone ^a,b   Berman, Tom ^a  

^a ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON GROWTH;

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DNA; LAKES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; AMMONIA; DNA 16S; FRESH WATER; GLUCOSE; LAKE WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BACTERIOPLANKTON; GROWTH RESPONSE; TROPHIC STATUS;

AEROMONAS; ALTEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAULOBACTER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISRAEL; LAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEINHEIMERA; ROSEOBACTER; SHEWANELLA; SPHINGOMONAS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIBRIO;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AEROMONAS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHEINHEIMERA; ROSEOBACTER; SHEWANELLA; SPHINGOMONAS; VIBRIO;

EID: 0037224962     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.1.199-211.2003     Document Type: Article

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