Prevalence of the Chloroflexi-related SAR202 bacterioplankton cluster throughout the mesopelagic zone and deep ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2836-2842

  Morris, R M ^a   Rappe M S ^b   Urbach, E ^c   Connon, S A ^d   Giovannoni, S J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RNA; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY;

GENES;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CHLOROFLEXI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLUM; PREVALENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHLOROFLEXI; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS);

EID: 2442643112     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.2836-2842.2004     Document Type: Article

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