Viral and flagellate control of prokaryotic production and community structure in offshore mediterranean waters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4801-4812

  Bonilla Findji, Osana ^a,b   Hernd, Gerhard J ^c   Gattuso, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Weinbauer, Markus G ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ACTIVE MEMBER; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMBINED EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DEEP CHLOROPHYLL MAXIMUMS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; F TREATMENT; FLOW-CYTOMETER; LEUCINE INCORPORATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN WATERS; MIXED LAYER; PROKARYOTIC PRODUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESOURCE CONTROL; SIZE FRACTIONATION;

AMINO ACIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELATION; PORPHYRINS;

MICROORGANISMS;

CHLOROPHYLL; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; CHLOROPHYLL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELECTROKINESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLAGELLATE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; PREDATOR; PROKARYOTE; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FILTRATION; FLAGELLATE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; VIRUS;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; LEUCINE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 67650488817     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01376-08     Document Type: Article

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