Variations in spatial and temporal distribution of Archaea in the North Sea in relation to environmental variables

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 242-257

  Herfort, Lydie ^a,b   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Abbas, Ben ^a   Veldhuis, Marcel J W ^a   Coolen, Marco J L ^a,c   Wuchter, Cornelia ^a   Boon, Jan P ^a   Herndl, Gerhard J ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Distribution; Nitrification; North Sea

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHORUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENVIRONMENT; EURYARCHAEOTA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA HYBRIDIZATION;

CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENES, RRNA; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; NORTH SEA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

ALGAE; ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

EID: 35948990899     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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