Fingerprinting Microbial Assemblages from the Oxic/Anoxic Chemocline of the Black Sea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6481-6488

  Vetriani, Costantino ^a   Tran, Hiep V ^a   Kerkhof, Lee J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; METHANE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEA; SEDIMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS;

EID: 0242489257     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6481-6488.2003     Document Type: Article

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