Diversity of bacteria associated with the coral Pocillopora damicornis from the Great Barrier Reef

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1162-1174

  Bourne, David G ^a   Munn, Colin B ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS; VIBRIO SHILONII;

EID: 22744438425     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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