Analysis of bacterial core communities in the central Baltic by comparative RNA-DNA-based fingerprinting provides links to structure-function relationships

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-212

  Brettar, Ingrid ^a   Christen, Richard ^b   Höfle, Manfred G ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

bacterioplankton; CORDAF; SSCP fingerprints; structure function links

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROKINESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMORPHISM; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BALTIC STATES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA GENE; SEA; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; BALTIC STATES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84355163065     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.80     Document Type: Article

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