Molecular characterization of putative biocorroding microbiota with a novel niche detection of Epsilon- and Zetaproteobacteria in Pacific Ocean coastal seawaters

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3059-3074

  Dang, Hongyue ^a,b   Chen, Ruipeng ^a,c   Wang, Lin ^a,c   Shao, Sudong ^b   Dai, Lingqing ^b   Ye, Ying ^b   Guo, Lizhong ^c   Huang, Guiqiao ^d   Klotz, Martin G ^e,f  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CENTRAL IRON AND STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; STEEL;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILM; CLASSIFICATION; CORROSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILMS; CORROSION; GENE LIBRARY; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEEL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTEROMONADALES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIALES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; OCEANOSPIRILLALES; RHODOBACTERALES;

EID: 80055093294     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02583.x     Document Type: Article

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