Bacterial community associated with healthy and diseased reef coral Mussismilia hispida from Eastern Brazil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 658-667

  de Castro, Alinne Pereira ^a   Araújo Jr , Samuel Dias ^b   Reis, Alessandra M M ^b   Moura, Rodrigo L ^c   Francini Filho, Ronaldo B ^d   Pappas Jr , Georgios ^b,e   Rodrigues, Thiago Bruce ^f   Thompson, Fabiano L ^f   Krüger, Ricardo H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

^c Conservation International Brazil ^*  (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^e EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALKALIBACTER; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; ARCOBACTER; AZOSPIRILLUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BLASTOCHLORIS; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HIRSCHIA; LENTISPHAERAE; MUSSISMILIA; MUSSISMILIA BRAZILIENSIS; MUSSISMILIA HISPIDA; NITROSPIRA; OCHROBACTRUM; OTUS; PAENIBACILLUS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TERASAKIELLA; VIBRIO;

EID: 77953324613     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9646-1     Document Type: Article

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