Members of a Readily Enriched β-Proteobacterial Clade are Common in Surface Waters of a Humic Lake

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6550-6559

  Burkert, Ulrike ^a   Warnecke, Falk ^b   Babenzien, Dieter ^a   Zwirnmann, Elke ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (DOC);

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; RNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CARBON; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORUS; RIBOSOME RNA; SURFACE WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CARBON; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; FRESH WATER; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POLYNUCLEOBACTER NECESSARIUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0242657623     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6550-6559.2003     Document Type: Article

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