Bacterial diversity in deep Mediterranean sediments: Relationship with the active bacterial fraction and substrate availability

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 745-753

  Luna, G M ^a   Dell'Anno, A ^a   Giuliano, L ^b   Danovaro, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOPOLYMER; CARBOHYDRATE; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; LIPID; PHAEOPHYTIN A; PIGMENT; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; RIBOTYPING; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOPOLYMERS; CARBOHYDRATES; CHLOROPHYLL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIPIDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS; RIBOTYPING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 3042700147     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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