Cyanobacterial diversity and a new Acaryochloris-like symbiont from bahamian sea-squirts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  López Legentil, Susanna ^a   Song, Bongkeun ^b   Bosch, Manel ^a   Pawlik, Joseph R ^b   Turon, Xavier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; CHLOROPHYLL D;

ACARYOCHLORIS; ACARYOCHLORIS BAHAMIENSIS; ACARYOCHLORIS MARINA; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BAHAMAS; CLADISTICS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; HOST; LARVA; LISSOCLINUM; LISSOCLINUM FRAGILE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRIDIDEMNUM SOLIDUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UROCHORDATA;

ACARYOCHLORIS; ACARYOCHLORIS MARINA; ASCIDIACEA; CYANOBACTERIA; DIDEMNIDAE; LISSOCLINUM; LISSOCLINUM FRAGILE; PROCHLORON; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRIDIDEMNUM;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYLL; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYCOBILIPROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 80051948754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023938     Document Type: Article

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