Diversity and biogeography of bacterial assemblages in surface sediments across the San Pedro Basin, Southern California Borderlands

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 923-933

  Hewson, Ian ^a,b   Jacobson Meyers, Myrna E ^a   Fuhrman, Jed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CLASSIFICATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

EID: 33947162416     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01214.x     Document Type: Article

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