Use of real-time qPCR to quantify members of the unculturable heterotrophic bacterial community in a deep sea marine sponge, Vetulina sp

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 384-394

  Cassler, M ^a   Peterson, C L ^c   Ledger, A ^b   Pomponi, S A ^b   Wright, A E ^b   Winegar, R ^a   McCarthy, P J ^b   Lopez, J V ^b  

^a MRI Florida Division   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Historic Bok Sanctuary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DOSAGE; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; LITHISTIDA; MARINOMONAS; NITROSPIRA; RHEINHEIMERA; VETULINA;

EID: 41049092348     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-007-9283-5     Document Type: Article

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