Roseobacter-like bacteria in Red and Mediterranean Sea aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 344-353

  Oz, Aia ^a   Sabehi, Gazalah ^a   Koblízek, Michal ^b,c   Massana, Ramon ^d   Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

AEROBIC ANOXYGENIC PHOTOTROPHS (AANP); GENOMIC DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS GENES; ROSEOBACTERS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL;

BACTERIUM;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPLANKTON; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEOBACTERIA; ROSEOBACTER; SAMPLING;

AEROBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; ROSEOBACTER; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; ROSEOBACTER; UNCULTURED ROSEOBACTER SP.;

EID: 12244267987     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.1.344-353.2005     Document Type: Article

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