Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3805-3810

  Frias Lopez, Jorge ^a   Shi, Yanmei ^a   Tyson, Gene W ^a   Coleman, Maureen L ^a   Schuster, Stephan C ^b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a   DeLong, Edward F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial communities; cDNA; Marine; Metagenomics; Metatranscriptomics

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA; SURFACE WATER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PYROSEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 41649114407     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708897105     Document Type: Article

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