Culture isolation and culture-independent clone libraries reveal new marine Synechococcus ecotypes with distinctive light and N physiologies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 7193-7204

  Ahlgren, Nathan A ^a   Rocap, Gabrielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CLONING; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RNA;

CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCOCCUS; PUTATIVE ECOTYPES; SYNECHOCOCCUS ECOTYPES; WATER COLUMNS;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLADISTICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LIBRARY; LIGHT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITROGEN UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENE LIBRARY; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301;

EID: 33750969711     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00358-06     Document Type: Article

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