Molecular microbial diversity survey of sponge reproductive stages and mechanistic insights into vertical transmission of microbial symbionts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7694-7708

  Schmitt, Susanne ^a,c   Angermeier, Hilde ^a   Schiller, Roswitha ^a   Lindquist, Niels ^b   Hentschel, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCES; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFERS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATIONS; INDIRECT MECHANISMS; MARINE SPONGES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITIES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES; PHYLOTYPES; REPRODUCTIVE STAGES; TRANSMISSION MODELS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSIONS;

GENES;

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RNA; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE; SYMBIONT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MARINE SPECIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIONT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECTYOPLASIA FEROX;

EID: 57449117293     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00878-08     Document Type: Article

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