East tibetan lakes harbour novel clusters of picocyanobacteria as inferred from the 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer sequences

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 614-622

  Wu, Qinglong L ^a   Xing, Peng ^a   Liu, Wen Tso ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SALINITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FRESH WATER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIBET; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77952532170     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-009-9603-z     Document Type: Article

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