Surface colonization by marine roseobacters: Integrating genotype and phenotype

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6027-6037

  Slightom, Rachael N ^a,b   Buchan, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL AGENT; CELL DENSITY; CONSPECIFICS; GENE CONTENT; GENOME SEQUENCES; GROUP MEMBERS; HOLISTIC VIEW; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; ORGANIC SURFACES; PHENOTYPIC DATA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESENTATIVE STRAIN; ROSEOBACTERS; SURFACE COLONIZATION; SYNTENY;

CELL MEMBRANES; GENES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CARBON CYCLE; CLADISTICS; COLONIZATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; LIFESTYLE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANKTON; SESSILE SPECIES;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON CYCLE; CELL DENSITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; ROSEOBACTER; SHORT SURVEY;

GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; ROSEOBACTER; SEAWATER;

ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 70349493025     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01508-09     Document Type: Short Survey

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