Morphological and genetic evidence that the cyanobacterium Lyngbya wollei (Farlow ex Gomont) speziale and dyck encompasses at least two species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3710-3717

  Joyner, Jennifer J ^a,c   Litaker, R Wayne ^b   Paerl, Hans W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULES; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; PHOSPHORUS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVER POLLUTION; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); SULFATE MINERALS; WATER QUALITY;

AMERICAN SOCIETY; BULK SAMPLES; CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN (DIN); FLORIDA; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); ION CONCENTRATIONS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; NORTH CAROLINA; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT (OTU); PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; RRNA GENES; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SUB-CLUSTERS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALGAL BLOOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT LOSS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LYNGBYA WOLLEI; MORPHOLOGY; NIFH GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESERVOIR; RIVER; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPRING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLORIDA; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NORTH CAROLINA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CYANOBACTERIA; LYNGBYA; LYNGBYA WOLLEI;

EID: 45749135528     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02645-07     Document Type: Article

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