Clade-specific 16S ribosomal DNA oligonucleotides reveal the predominance of a single marine synechococcus clade throughout a stratified water column in the red sea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2430-2443

  Fuller, Nicholas J ^a   Marie, Dominique ^b   Partensky, Frédéric ^b   Vaulot, Daniel ^b   Post, Anton F ^c   Scanlan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER;

GENETIC DIVERSITY;

DNA;

DNA 16S; NITRATE; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHYCOERYTHRIN; WATER;

BACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYBRIDIZATION; INFORMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; SALT TOLERANCE; SEA; STRATIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDIAN OCEAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

RED SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0037545904     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2430-2443.2003     Document Type: Article

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