Phenotype-specific bacterial communities in the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) and their implications for the coral's nutrition, health, and distribution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 7272-7285

  Neulinger, Sven C ^a,d   Järnegren, Johanna ^b   Ludvigsen, Martin ^c   Lochte, Karin ^a   Dullo, Wolf Christian ^d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CLONING; NUTRITION; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

16S RRNA GENES; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIC METABOLISMS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; CLONE SEQUENCES; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CORAL REEFS; END PRODUCTS; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COLONIZATIONS; MIXOTROPHIC; OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGENS; PLANCTOMYCETES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TWO COLORS; WATER SPECIES;

BACTERIOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COLD WATER; COLONIZATION; CORAL; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDETES; CORAL; CORAL REEF; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHODOBACTERACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CELLULOSE; CHITIN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORWAY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CLONES; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITION; PATHOGENS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; TRONDHEIMSFJORDEN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CARYOPHYLLIIDAE; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; PLANCTOMYCETES; RHODOBACTERACEAE; SCLERACTINIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 57149110226     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01777-08     Document Type: Article

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