Ecotypes of planktonic actinobacteria with identical 16S rRNA genes adapted to thermal niches in temperate, subtropical, and tropical freshwater habitats

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 766-773

  Hahn, Martin W ^a   Pöckl, Matthias ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENES; RNA; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS; WATER RESOURCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ECOTYPES; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER (ITS); NUCLEOTIDE FRAGMENT; PLANKTONIC;

MICROBIOLOGY;

RNA 16S; SPACER DNA;

BACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOTYPE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHINA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA; WORLD;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 13544252535     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.766-773.2005     Document Type: Article

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