Microbial Biogeography along an Estuarine Salinity Gradient: Combined Influences of Bacterial Growth and Residence Time

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1494-1505

  Crump, Byron C ^a   Hopkinson, Charles S ^b   Sogin, Mitchell L ^c   Hobbie, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CONFORMATIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROBIOLOGY; SALINE WATER; SEDIMENTS;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; MICROBIAL BIOGEOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA;

DNA 16S; LEUCINE;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROWTH; RESIDENCE TIME; SALINITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTUARY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; SALINITY; SEA; SPRING; SUMMER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MASSACHUSETTS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; PARKER ESTUARY; PLUM ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 1642376424     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1494-1505.2004     Document Type: Article

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