Statistical Approaches for Estimating Actinobacterial Diversity in Marine Sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6189-6200

  Stach, James E M ^a   Maldonado, Luis A ^b   Masson, Douglas G ^c   Ward, Alan C ^b   Goodfellow, Michael ^b   Bull, Alan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; PHYLOGENY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0142072741     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6189-6200.2003     Document Type: Article

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