Exploring the role of microorganisms in the disease-like syndrome affecting the sponge Ianthella basta

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5736-5744

  Luter, Heidi M ^a,b   Whalan, Steve ^a   Webster, Nicole S ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ARCHAEA; BROWN SPOTS; CLONE LIBRARY; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; CRENARCHAEOTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIRECT PHYSICAL CONTACTS; DISEASE PROCESS; EUKARYA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; INFECTION ASSAYS; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; RNA; VIRUSES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUSES;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; TORRES STRAIT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IANTHELLA BASTA; PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM;

EID: 77956590878     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00653-10     Document Type: Article

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