Protistan diversity estimates based on 18S rDNA from seawater incubations in the Western North Atlantic

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 95-106

  Countway, Peter D ^a   Gast, Rebecca J ^b   Savai, Pratik ^a   Caron, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Atlantic Ocean; Coastal; Diversity; DNA sequence; Fragment analysis; Incubation; Molecular; Protist; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INCUBATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; PROTIST; RNA; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST);

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PROTOZOON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 22044432865     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.05202006.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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