Prokaryotic phylogenetic diversity and corresponding geochemical data of the brine-seawater interface of the Shaban Deep, Red Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 758-763

  Eder, Wolfgang ^a   Schmidt, Mark ^b   Koch, Marcus ^a   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^b   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 18744398715     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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