PCR-based detection of bioluminescent microbial populations in Tyrrhenian Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 763-767

  Gentile, Gabriela ^a,b   De Luca, Massimo ^a   Denaro, Renata ^b   La Cono, Violetta ^b   Smedile, Francesco ^a   Scarfì, Simona ^a   De Domenico, Emilio ^a   De Domenico, Maria ^a   Yakimov, Michail M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioluminescent bacteria; Deep sea microbial communities; luxA gene; Uncultured bacteria

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BIOLUMINESCENT BACTERIA; DEEP-SEA MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; DIRECT AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCES; LUXA GENE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MOLECULAR APPROACH; PCR PRODUCTS; PCR-BASED DETECTION; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; PHYLOGENETIC AFFILIATION; PUBLIC DATABASE; SEAWATER SAMPLES; SPECIFIC DETECTION; TYRRHENIAN SEA; UNCULTURED BACTERIA;

AMPLIFICATION; BACTERIOLOGY; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SEAWATER;

BIOLUMINESCENCE;

BACTERIUM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEAWATER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM 'KISHITANII CLADE'; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 67349270536     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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