Geographic and environmental sources of variation in lake bacterial community composition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 227-239

  Yannarell, Anthony C ^a,c   Triplett, Eric W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPOSITION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LAKES; PH EFFECTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACE ANALYSIS (ARISA); CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS (CCA); LANDSCAPE; WATER CLARITY;

BACTERIA;

DNA FRAGMENT; SPACER DNA;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; WISCONSIN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WISCONSIN; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 12244257532     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.1.227-239.2005     Document Type: Article

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