Ecological significance of microdiversity: Identical 16S rRNA gene sequences can be found in bacteria with highly divergent genomes and ecophysiologies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4831-4839

  Jaspers, Elke ^a,c   Overmann, Jörg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HOCHSCHULE BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA; SURFACE WATERS;

GENE SEQUENCES; GENETIC DIVERSITY; PLANKTONIC BACTERIA;

BIODIVERSITY;

RNA 16S;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREVUNDIMONAS ALBA; CAULOBACTER; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ECOLOGY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CAULOBACTERACEAE; CULTURE MEDIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVUNDIMONAS; BREVUNDIMONAS ALBA; CAULOBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4143136662     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.4831-4839.2004     Document Type: Article

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