Lake superior supports novel clusters of cyanobacterial picoplankton

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4055-4065

  Ivanikova, Natalia V ^a   Popels, Linda C ^a   McKay, R Michael L ^a   Bullerjahn, George S ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; GENES; LAKES; MARINE BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; RNA;

AUTOTROPHIC PICOPLANKTON (APP); CYANOBACTERIAL PICOPLANKTON; GENE SEQUENCE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL RNA; PHYCOERYTHRIN; RNA 16S;

AUTOTROPHY; BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEW GENUS; PHYLOGENETICS; PICOPLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SUMMER; SYNECHOCOCCUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRESH WATER; MINNESOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WISCONSIN;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE SUPERIOR; NORTH AMERICA;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 34250803867     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00214-07     Document Type: Article

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