Shifts in microbial and chemical patterns within the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba during a disease outbreak

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3366-3376

  Webster, Nicole S ^a   Xavier, Joana R ^b,c   Freckelton, Marnie ^a   Motti, Cherie A ^a   Cobb, Rose ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, RRNA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANTHOZOA; APLYSINA AEROPHOBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 55849097006     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01734.x     Document Type: Article

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