Microbial diversity and stratification of South Pacific abyssal marine sediments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3219-3234

  Durbin, Alan M ^a   Teske, Andreas ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; PLANCTOMYCETES; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 82555190964     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02544.x     Document Type: Article

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