Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the oceans water column

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7244, 2009, Pages 266-269

  Shi, Yanmei ^a   Tyson, Gene W ^a   Delong, Edward F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SEA WATER; SPACER DNA;

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PEPTIDE; PLANKTON; RNA; TAXONOMY; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CARBON METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; HABITAT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ALGORITHMS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CANDIDATUS PELAGIBACTER;

EID: 66149130975     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08055     Document Type: Article

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