Specific detection, isolation, and characterization of selected, previously uncultured members of the freshwater bacterioplankton community

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 5908-5919

  Gich, Frederic ^a   Schubert, Karin ^a   Bruns, Alke ^a,b   Hoffelner, Herbert ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Becton Dickinson GmbH Germany   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

BACTERIAL ISOLATES; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE FINGERPRINTS; GENE FRAGMENTS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; ORGANIC CARBON; RNA 16S;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; DETECTION METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPHAGA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIA; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; LAKE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SANDARACINOBACTER SIBIRICUS; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIA; SANDARACINOBACTER SIBIRICUS; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 26844476654     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.5908-5919.2005     Document Type: Article

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