The diverse bacterial community in intertidal, anaerobic sediments at Sapelo Island, Georgia

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-261

  Lasher, Chris ^a,b   Dyszynski, Glen ^a,c   Everett, Karin ^a,c   Edmonds, Jennifer ^a,d   Ye, Wenying ^a,e   Sheldon, Wade ^a   Wang, Shiyao ^a   Joye, Samantha B ^a   Moran, Mary Ann ^a   Whitman, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^e Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; OTUS;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEASON; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GENE LIBRARY; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEORGIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 68549107704     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-008-9481-9     Document Type: Article

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