Strains of the cyanobacterial genera Calothrix and Rivularia isolated from the Baltic Sea display cryptic diversity and are distantly related to Gloeotrichia and Tolypothrix

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-84

  Sihvonen, Leila M ^a   Lyra, Christina ^a   Fewer, David P ^a   Rajaniemi Wacklin, Pirjo ^a   Lehtimäki, Jaana M ^a   Wahlsten, Matti ^a   Sivonen, Kaarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

16S rRNA genes; Calothrix; Cyanobacteria; Gloeotrichia; Rivularia; Tolypothrix

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

BENTHOS; CRYPSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BALTIC SEA; BENTHOS; CALOTHRIX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOEOTRICHIA; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVULARIA; TOLYPOTHRIX;

CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; FRESH WATER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CALOTHRIX; CYANOBACTERIA; GLOEOTRICHIA; RIVULARIA (CYANOBACTERIUM); RIVULARIACEAE; TOLYPOTHRIX;

EID: 34250026164     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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