Diversity and Abundance of Uncultured Cytophaga-Like Bacteria in the Delaware Estuary

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6587-6596

  Kirchman, David L ^a   Yu, Liying ^a   Cottrell, Matthew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; RNA;

ORGANIC MATERIALS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES;

CYTOPHAGA; DELAWARE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242573334     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6587-6596.2003     Document Type: Article

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