Microbial communities in contrasting freshwater marsh microhabitats: Research article

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 84-97

  Buesing, Nanna ^a   Filippini, Manuela ^a   Bürgmann, Helmut ^a,b   Gessner, Mark O ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; DGGE; Freshwater; Fungi; Phragmites; Wetland

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELECTROKINESIS; FRESHWATER; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPHY; MARSH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROHABITAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER COLUMN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; HUMAN; MARSH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROHABITAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FRESH WATER; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FUNGI; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 66749111759     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00692.x     Document Type: Article

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