Phylogenetic characterisation of picoplanktonic populations with high and low nucleic acid content in the North Atlantic Ocean

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 470-475

  Schattenhofer, Martha ^a,d   Wulf, Jörg ^a   Kostadinov, Ivalyo ^a,c   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a,c   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^b   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

CARD FISH; Flow cytometry; Genome size; Marine; Phylogenetic composition; Prokaryotic picoplankton

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CATALYSIS; CELL SORTER; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ICELAND; MARINE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; PICOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME SIZE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80051676001     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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