Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria attached to particles in turbid waters of the Delaware and Chesapeake estuaries

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3936-3944

  Waidner, Lisa A ^a   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ESTUARIES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENES; MARINE BIOLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); WATER ANALYSIS;

AEROBIC ANOXYGENIC PHOTOTROPHIC (AAP) BACTERIA; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; LIGHT REACTION CENTER; PHOTOHETEROTROPHS;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; NITRATE; SURFACE WATER;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURBIDITY;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESTUARY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; PUFM GENE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; NITRATES; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; DELAWARE ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34250886336     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00592-07     Document Type: Article

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