Bacterial community structure associated with the Antarctic soft coral, Alcyonium antarcticum

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-94

  Webster, Nicole S ^a,b   Bourne, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Bacterial diversity; Marine bacteria; Soft coral

Indexed keywords

CLONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTAMINATED LAND; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA; SOFT CORAL; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBI; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA LIBRARY; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANTHOZOA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ALCYONACEA; ALCYONIUM; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBI; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PLANCTOMYCETES; POLARIBACTER;

EID: 33845641342     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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