Diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the azooxanthellate deep water octocorals Leptogorgia minimata, Iciligorgia schrammi, and Swiftia exertia

Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 561-576

  Brück, Thomas B ^a   Brück, Wolfram M ^b   Santiago Vázquez, Lory Z ^a   McCarthy, Peter J ^b   Kerr, Russell G ^a,c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Azooxanthellate octocoral; Bacterial association; Cultured bacterial isolates; FISH

Indexed keywords

AZOOXANTHELLATE OCTOCORAL; BACTERIAL ASSOCIATION; CULTURED BACTERIAL ISOLATES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH);

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; RNA;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; CORAL; DEEP WATER; DNA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DINOFLAGELLIDA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOPHYCEAE; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ICILIGORGIA SCHRAMMI; LEPTOGORGIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SWIFTIA;

EID: 35349031195     PISSN: 14362228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10126-007-9009-1     Document Type: Article

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