Ecosystem-dependent adaptive radiations of picocyanobacteria inferred from 16S rRNA and ITS-1 sequence analysis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 217-228

  Ernst, Anneliese ^a   Becker, Sven ^a   Wollenzien, Ute I A ^a   Postius, Christine ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PIGMENT; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BALTIC SEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROGRAPHY; LAKE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PARAPHYLY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOCYANOBACTERIUM; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037259888     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25475-0     Document Type: Review

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