Cultivation and Growth Characteristics of a Diverse Group of Oligotrophic Marine Gammaproteobacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 432-440

  Cho, Jang Cheon ^a   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

GENE SEQUENCES;

BACTERIOLOGY;

ORGANIC CARBON; RIBOSOME RNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347130086     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.432-440.2004     Document Type: Article

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