Low intraspecific diversity in a Polynucleobacter subcluster population numerically dominating bacterioplankton of a freshwater pond

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4539-4547

  Hahn, Martin W ^a   Pöckl, Matthias ^a   Wu, Qinglong L ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; RNA;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; GENOMIC FINGERPRINTING; MICRODIVERSITY; RIBOSOMAL OPERON;

BACTERIA;

FRESH WATER; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLONE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYNUCLEOBACTER; POND; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; POLYNUCLEOBACTER;

EID: 23744486525     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4539-4547.2005     Document Type: Article

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