Phylogenetic diversity of bacteria associated with the mucus of Red Sea corals

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-198

  Lampert, Yael ^a   Kelman, Dovi ^a   Nitzan, Yeshayahu ^a   Dubinsky, Zvy ^a   Behar, Adi ^b   Hill, Russell T ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Clone libraries; Coral mucus; Coral associated bacteria; Red Sea; Uncultured bacteria

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CORAL REEF; GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CORAL MUCUS; CORAL REEF; CYTOPHAGA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA EXTRACTION; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLEXIBACTER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; INDIAN OCEAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FUNGIA SCUTARIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; PLANCTOMYCES; PLATYGYRA LAMELLINA; PROKARYOTA; UNCLASSIFIED BACTERIA; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 42149152306     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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