An environmental genomics perspective on the diversity and function of marine sponge-associated microbiota

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-220

  Grozdanov, Lubomir ^a   Hentschel, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOMICS; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250704324     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.05.012     Document Type: Review

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