Microbial community of salt crystals processed from Mediterranean seawater based on 16S rRNA analysis

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-51

  Baati, Houda ^a   Guermazi, Sonda ^b,c,d   Gharsallah, Neji ^e   Sghir, Abdelghani ^b,c,d   Ammar, Emna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^e Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Archaea; Bacteria; Phylogenetic analysis; Salt crystals

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA SEQUENCES; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CLONE SEQUENCES; COASTAL AREA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERSITY MEASUREMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PUBLIC DATABASE; RAREFACTION CURVE; SALT CRYSTALS; SALTY ENVIRONMENTS; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SIMPSON; TOTAL DISSOLVED SALTS; TUNISIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; COASTAL ZONES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; DISSOLUTION; SEAWATER;

RNA;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CRYSTAL PROPERTY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; SALT WATER; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTEROMONADACEAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDETES; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; EUBACTERIUM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FLAVOBACTERIALES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOMONADACEAE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLOBACTERIACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; RHODOSPIRILLACEAE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEASHORE; SPHINGOBACTERIALES; TUNISIA; WATER ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS; SEAWATER; TUNISIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EURYARCHAEOTA; OTUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 76749110792     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W09-102     Document Type: Article

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