Phylogenetic and ecological analysis of novel marine stramenopiles

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3528-3534

  Massana, Ramon ^a   Castresana, Jose ^b   Balagué, Vanessa ^a   Guillou, Laure ^c   Romari, Khadidja ^c   Groisillier, Agnès ^c   Valentin, Klaus ^d   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SITES; PHYLOGENETIC RESEARCH;

CELL CULTURE; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES; SURFACE WATERS;

MICROORGANISMS;

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

EUKARYOTE; MICROORGANISM; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DNA LIBRARY; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 2942558424     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3528-3534.2004     Document Type: Article

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