Distribution of the uncultured protist MAST-4 in the Indian Ocean, Drake Passage and Mediterranean Sea assessed by real-time quantitative PCR

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 397-408

  Rodríguez Martínez, Raquel ^a   Labrenz, Matthias ^b   Del Campo, Javier ^a   Forn, Irene ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^b   Massana, Ramon ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER;

MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 58549120997     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01779.x     Document Type: Article

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