Seasonal community and population dynamics of pelagic bacteria and archaea in a high mountain lake

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4299-4306

  Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a   Unterholzner, Stefanie ^b   Alfreider, Albin ^b   Psenner, Roland ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LAKE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL STRUCTURE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; LAKE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROKARYOTE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRIA; GOSSENKOLLESEE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0345596420     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4299-4306.1998     Document Type: Article

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