Quantifying 3H-thymidine incorporation rates by a phylogenetically defined group of marine planktonic bacteria (Bacteriodetes phylum)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1061-1069

  Van Mooy, Benjamin A S ^a,b   Devol, Allan H ^a   Keil, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BIOTINYLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SEA; UNITED STATES;

BACTEROIDETES; BIOTINYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; KINETICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM; WASHINGTON;

EID: 4644275488     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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