Archaea in the Gulf of Aqaba

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-438

  Ionescu, Danny ^a,b   Penno, Sigrid ^a,e   Haimovich, Maya ^a   Rihtman, Branko ^a   Goodwin, Aram ^a   Schwartz, Daniel ^c   Hazanov, Lena ^d,e   Chernihovsky, Mark ^a,e   Post, Anton F ^a,e   Oren, Aharon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archaea; Crenarchaeota; Euryarchaeota; Gulf of Aqaba; Inorganic CO2 uptake

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; LEUCINE; RNA 16S;

BICARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORAL; DNA; ELECTROKINESIS; FLUORESCENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; HYDROGRAPHY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INHIBITOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OCEANIC CURRENT; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION TYPE; PROKARYOTE; RNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EURYARCHAEOTA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOCLINE;

CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 68249119809     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00721.x     Document Type: Article

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