Prokaryotic genomes and diversity in surface ocean waters: Interrogating the global ocean sampling metagenome

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2221-2229

  Biers, Erin J ^a,b   Sun, Shulei ^a   Howard, Erinn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENES; ACID MINE DRAINAGES; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CULTURED BACTERIA; DATA SETS; GENETIC POTENTIALS; GLOBAL OCEANS; GLOBAL SCALE; HABITAT TYPES; HYPERSALINE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITIES; MICRODIVERSITY; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PROKARYOTIC GENOMES; SIZE FRACTIONS; SURFACE OCEANS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GENES; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

RIBOSOME RNA;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; COASTAL LAGOON; DATA SET; GENOME; GLOBAL OCEAN; HABITAT TYPE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; RNA; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURFACE WATER; TAXONOMY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEINOCOCCUS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FIBROBACTERES; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLUM; PROKARYOTE; SEA; SPIROCHETE; TAXON; THERMUS;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; RIBOTYPING; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 63849269776     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02118-08     Document Type: Article

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