Depth matters: Microbial eukaryote diversity and community structure in the eastern North Pacific revealed through environmental gene libraries

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-26

  Schnetzer, Astrid ^a   Moorthi, Stefanie D ^b   Countway, Peter D ^a   Gast, Rebecca J ^c   Gilg, Ilana C ^d   Caron, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

18S clone libraries; Diversity; North Pacific; Protistan community structure; Protistan depth distribution; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CLONE LIBRARY; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; DIVERSITY; NORTH PACIFIC; PROTISTAN COMMUNITIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CLONING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OXYGEN;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CILIATE; CLADISTICS; CLONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATABASE; DEEP WATER; DIVERSITY INDEX; EUPHOTIC ZONE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PROTIST; TAXONOMY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SAN PEDRO CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

ACANTHAREA; ALVEOLATA; CHLOROPHYTA; CHROMALVEOLATA; CILIOPHORA; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; OTUS; PROTISTA; STICHOLONCHE; STICHOLONCHIDAE; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 78349241135     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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