Comparative day/night metatranscriptomic analysis of microbial communities in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1358-1375

  Poretsky, Rachel S ^a   Hewson, Ian ^b   Sun, Shulei ^a   Allen, Andrew E ^c   Zehr, Jonathan P ^b   Moran, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; TIME;

BACTERIA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLANKTON; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 66649089244     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01863.x     Document Type: Article

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