Fingerprinting Diazotroph Communities in the Chesapeake Bay by Using a DNA Macroarray

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1767-1776

  Jenkins, Bethany D ^a   Steward, Grieg F ^b   Short, Steven M ^a   Ward, Bess B ^c   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZOTROPHS; GENE SEQUENCES; HYBRIDIZATION;

CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN FIXATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DINITROGENASE REDUCTASE; DNA; NITROGEN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROORGANISM;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MACROARRAY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MARYLAND; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAWATER; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642321120     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1767-1776.2004     Document Type: Article

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