Prochlorococcus ecotype abundances in the North Atlantic ocean as revealed by an improved quantitative PCR method

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 723-732

  Zinser, Erik R ^a,d   Coe, Allison ^a   Johnson, Zackary I ^a,e   Martiny, Adam C ^a   Fuller, Nicholas J ^b   Scanlan, David J ^b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; ECOLOGY; GENES;

CLONE LIBRARY ANALYSES; ECOTYPES; PROBE HYBRIDIZATION;

BACTERIA;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOTYPE; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYBRIDIZATION; OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33644868116     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.723-732.2006     Document Type: Article

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