Spatial comparison of total vs. active bacterial populations by coupling genetic fingerprinting and clone library analyses in the NW Mediterranean Sea

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-42

  Rodríguez Blanco, Arturo ^a,b   Ghiglione, Jean François ^a,b   Catala, Philippe ^a,b   Casamayor, Emilio O ^c   Lebaron, Philippe ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Bacterial diversity and activity Prochlorococcus; CE SSCP fingerprinting; Gammaproteobacteria; SAR11; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 57449090885     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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