Seasonal and habitat-related distribution pattern of Synechococcus genotypes in Lake Constance

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-77

  Becker, Sven ^a,d   Richl, Petra ^b   Ernst, Anneliese ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deep autotrophic picoplankton maximum; Picocyanobacteria; Population dynamics; Quantitative Taq nuclease assays; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

PHYCOCYANIN;

ABUNDANCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; MICROSCOPY; PICOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC LINE; GENOTYPE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAKE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC ZONE; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THERMOSTABILITY;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; SEASONS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE CONSTANCE;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 34848875476     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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