Niche partitioning of marine group I Crenarchaeota in the euphotic and upper mesopelagic zones of the East China Sea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7469-7478

  Hu, Anyi ^a,b   Jiao, Nianzhi ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Yang, Zao ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BIOTIN CARBOXYLASE; CARBON CYCLING; CLONE LIBRARY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONTROLLING MECHANISM; COPY NUMBER; CRENARCHAEOTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL; EAST CHINA SEA; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; ELEMENT CYCLING; EUPHOTIC ZONE; LIGHT GRADIENTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOPELAGIC; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MONOOXYGENASES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; UPPER OCEAN; WATER COLUMNS;

DEPTH PROFILING; OCEAN HABITATS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

GENES;

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; BIOTIN CARBOXYLASE; LIGASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTYPE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; NICHE PARTITIONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRENARCHAEOTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRENARCHAEOTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 83155185462     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00294-11     Document Type: Article

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