Stable isotope probing of rRNA and DNA reveals a dynamic methylotroph community and trophic interactions with fungi and protozoa in oxic rice field soil

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-72

  Lueders, Tillmann ^a   Wagner, Bianca ^a   Claus, Peter ^a   Friedrich, Michael W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; FUNGAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FLAGELLATE; FUSARIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; METHYLOPHILACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA; CARBON ISOTOPES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FUSARIUM; GENES, RRNA; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASTIGOPHORA; METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; METHYLOPHILACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERCOZOA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; METHYLOPHILACEAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0842266321     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00535.x     Document Type: Article

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