Integrated metatranscriptomic and metagenomic analyses of stratified microbial assemblages in the open ocean

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 999-1013

  Shi, Yanmei ^a   Tyson, Gene W ^a,b   Eppley, John M ^a   Delong, Edward F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

bacterioplankton; biogeochemical processes; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; microbial gene expression regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SEA WATER;

AMMONIA; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CELL ORGANELLE; COEXISTENCE; DOMINANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GYRE; HABITAT TYPE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OPEN OCEAN; OXIDATION; PHOSPHATE; PHOTIC ZONE; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SURVEY; TAXONOMY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; ROSEOBACTER; SEA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; ROSEOBACTER; SEAWATER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CANDIDATUS PELAGIBACTER; CENARCHAEALES; CRENARCHAEOTA; PROCHLORALES; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 79956287318     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.189     Document Type: Article

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