Microbial diversity in marine biofilms along a water quality gradient on the Great Barrier Reef

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-126

  Kriwy, Pascal ^a,b   Uthicke, Sven ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial substrates; Biofilms; Environmental impact; Microbial community shift; Terrestrial runoff; Water quality gradient

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; BIOFILM; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DIATOM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LENTISPHERAE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILMS; BIOTA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORAL REEFS; CYANOBACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIATOMS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER POLLUTION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 79952534612     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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