Community structure of bacteria associated with sheaths of freshwater and brackish Thioploca species

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 765-773

  Kojima, Hisaya ^a,b   Koizumi, Yoshikazu ^a,c   Fukui, Manabu ^a,b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELECTROKINESIS; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; THIOTRICHACEAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGENSULFITE REDUCTASE; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIOTRICHACEAE;

AOMORI; ASIA; BIWA LAKE; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; LAKE CONSTANCE; LAKE OGAWARA; SHIGA; TOHOKU;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); THIOPLOCA;

EID: 33845545991     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9127-8     Document Type: Article

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