Blooms of single bacterial species in a coastal lagoon of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 6560-6568

  Piccini, Claudia ^a   Conde, Daniel ^b   Alonso, Cecilia ^c   Sommaruga, Ruben ^d   Pernthaler, Jakob ^c,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e Institute of Plant Biology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; COASTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENES; PATHOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; PLANKTONIC BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

BACTERIOLOGY;

FRESH WATER; LEUCINE; SEA WATER;

ALGAL BLOOM; BRACKISH WATER; COASTAL LAGOON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FRESHWATER; PLANKTON;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOTYPE; LAGOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS ECHINOIDES; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SPHINGOMONAS ECHINOIDES; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 33750080742     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01089-06     Document Type: Article

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