Defining DNA-based operational taxonomic units for microbial-eukaryote ecology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5797-5808

  Caron, David A ^a   Countway, Peter D ^a   Savai, Pratik ^a   Gast, Rebecca J ^b   Schnetzer, Astrid ^a   Moorthi, Stefanie D ^a,c   Dennett, Mark R ^b   Moran, Dawn M ^b   Jones, Adriane C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18S RRNA; COMPUTER BASED TOOLS; DATA SETS; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ECOLOGICAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DATABASE; GENBANK DATABASE; GENE SEQUENCES; HUMAN HEALTH; MICROBIAL SPECIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEANIC ECOSYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PRACTICAL METHOD; RRNA GENES; SEMI-AUTOMATED ANALYSIS;

DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DNA SEQUENCES;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 18S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALGORITHM; ECOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; AUTECOLOGY; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTES BY HABITAT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 70149117756     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00298-09     Document Type: Article

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