Biogeography of pelagic bacterioplankton across an antagonistic temperature-salinity gradient in the Red Sea

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 388-405

  Ngugi, David Kamanda ^a   Antunes, André ^a   Brune, Andreas ^b   Stingl, Ulrich ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; bacteria; biogeography; operational taxonomic unit; Prochlorococcus; pyrosequencing; Red Sea; SAR11

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTYPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTYPE; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; OTUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84855462375     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05378.x     Document Type: Article

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