Diversity and abundance of Gram positive bacteria in a tidal flat ecosystem

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1810-1822

  Stevens, Heike ^a   Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a   Rink, Beate ^a   Vollmers, John ^a   Simon, Meinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; GERMANY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; BACILLACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; MARINE ACTINOBACTERIA CLADE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34250198614     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01302.x     Document Type: Article

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