Vibrio infections triggering mass mortality events in a warming Mediterranean Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2007-2019

  Vezzulli, Luigi ^a   Previati, Monica ^a   Pruzzo, Carla ^a   Marchese, Anna ^a   Bourne, David G ^b   Cerrano, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS; VIBRIO HARVEYI; VIBRIO SPLENDIDUS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO;

EID: 78049437165     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02209.x     Document Type: Article

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