Bacterioneuston community structure in the southern baltic sea and its dependence on meteorological conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3726-3733

  Stolle, Christian ^a   Labrenz, Matthias ^a   Meeske, Christian ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE; ACTIVE MEMBER; AIR WATER INTERFACES; BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIOPLANKTONS; BALTIC SEA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LOW WIND SPEED; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL INFLUENCE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RADIATION LEVELS; SEA SURFACE MICROLAYER; SINGLE-STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; WATER COLUMNS; WIND SPEED;

BACTERIOLOGY; GENES; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

PHASE INTERFACES;

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

BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METEOROLOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESEARCH WORK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER COLUMN; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; WEATHER;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WEATHER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 79958259275     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00042-11     Document Type: Article

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