Bioturbating shrimp alter the structure and diversity of bacterial communities in coastal marine sediments

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1531-1544

  Laverock, Bonnie ^a,b   Smith, Cindy J ^b   Tait, Karen ^a   Osborn, A Mark ^b   Widdicombe, Steve ^a   Gilbert, Jack A ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacterial community structure; biodiversity; bioturbation; Callianassa subterranea; sediments; Upogebia deltaura

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOTURBATION; BURROW; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CRUSTACEAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLIANASSA SUBTERRANEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; UPOGEBIA DELTAURA;

EID: 78649449536     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.86     Document Type: Article

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