Resilience of coral-associated bacterial communities exposed to fish farm effluent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Garren, Melissa ^a   Raymundo, Laurie ^b   Guest, James ^c   Harvell, C Drew ^d   Azam, Farooq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ORGANIC CARBON; RNA 16S; CARBON;

ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; CORAL REEF; DESULFOVIBRIO; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EFFLUENT; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; PISCICULTURE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHANOS CHANOS; DESULFOVIBRIO; FUSOBACTERIUM; PORITES CYLINDRICA; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 70350231517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007319     Document Type: Article

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