Dimethylsulfoniopropionate turnover is linked to the composition and dynamics of the bacterioplankton assemblage during a microcosm phytoplankton bloom

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7650-7660

  Pinhassi, Jarone ^a   Simó, Rafel ^b   González, José M ^c   Vila, Maria ^b   Alonso Sáez, Laura ^b   Kiene, Ronald P ^d,e   Moran, Mary Ann ^f   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^e DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; MICROCOSM; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS; SEAWATER MICROCOSM;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIAL DNA; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONIC ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; SULFUR 35; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; TURNOVER;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTEROIDES; BIOMASS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KINETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; ROSEOBACTER; SEAWATER; SULFONIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES PHYLUM; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 29144483610     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.7650-7660.2005     Document Type: Article

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