Multiple bacterial symbionts in two species of co-occurring gutless oligochaete worms from Mediterranean sea grass sediments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3404-3416

  Ruehland, Caroline ^a   Blazejak, Anna ^a   Lott, Christian ^a,b   Loy, Alexander ^c   Erséus, Christer ^d   Dubilier, Nicole ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HYDRA Institute for Marine Sciences   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS;

ANNELIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OLAVIUS ALGARVENSIS; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; SULFUR-OXIDIZING SYMBIONTS;

EID: 55849147706     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01728.x     Document Type: Article

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