Novel eukaryotic lineages inferred from small-subunit rRNA analyses of oxygen-depleted marine environments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2657-2663

  Stoeck, Thorsten ^a   Epstein, Slava ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL PHYLOGENETIC TREE;

MARINE BIOLOGY; RNA; SEDIMENTS; WATER;

MICROBIOLOGY;

OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SALTMARSH;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; FUNGUS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALGAE, GREEN; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MASSACHUSETTS; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ALVEOLATA; CERCOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GADUS MORHUA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 0038221066     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2657-2663.2003     Document Type: Article

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