Isolation of strains belonging to the cosmopolitan Polynucleobacter necessarius cluster from freshwater habitats located in three climatic zones

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 5248-5254

  Hahn, Martin W ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; RNA;

FRESHWATER HABITATS;

BACTERIA;

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DETECTION METHOD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FILTRATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYNUCLEOBACTER NECESSARIUS; POND; RIVER ECOSYSTEM;

AUSTRIA; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CLIMATE; CULTURE MEDIA; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA; CHINA; EUROPE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POLYNUCLEOBACTER NECESSARIUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0141816854     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5248-5254.2003     Document Type: Article

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