Bacterioplankton community composition along a salinity gradient of sixteen high-mountain lakes located on the Tibetan Plateau, China

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5478-5485

  Wu, Qinglong L ^a,b   Zwart, Gabriel ^c   Schauer, Michael ^b   Kamst Van Agterveld, Miranda P ^c   Hahn, Martin W ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); HIGH MOUNTAIN LAKES; REVERSE LINE BLOT HYBRIDIZATION (RLB); SALINITY GRADIENT;

ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LAKES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

BACTERIA;

DNA; LAKE WATER; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ALTITUDE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; SALINE LAKE; SALINITY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHINA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LAKE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVERSE LINE BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CHINA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANKTON; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POLYNUCLEOBACTER; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33747359120     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00767-06     Document Type: Article

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