Improvements of high-throughput culturing yielded novel SAR11 strains and other abundant marine bacteria from the Oregon coast and the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series study site

ISME Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 361-371

  Stingl, Ulrich ^a   Tripp, Harry James ^a   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Marine bacterioplankton; Microdiversity; Proteorhodopsin; SAR11

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEORHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BERMUDA; BIOLOGY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BERMUDA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; OREGON; PHYLOGENY; RHODOPSIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34547775666     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2007.49     Document Type: Article

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