Spatial changes in the bacterial community structure along a vertical oxygen gradient in flooded paddy soil cores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 754-762

  Lüdemann, Heiner ^a   Arth, Inko ^a   Liesack, Werner ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; WATER;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXYGEN; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGENATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0343503030     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.2.754-762.2000     Document Type: Article

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