Abundance and composition of epiphytic bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidizers of marine red and brown macroalgae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 318-325

  Trias, Rosalia ^a   García Lledó, Arantzazu ^a   Sánchez, Noemí ^a   López Jurado, José Luis ^b   Hallin, Sara ^c   Bañeras, Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ALGAL SPECIES; AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZERS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BALEARIC ISLANDS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE CLONE LIBRARIES; LOW DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MACRO-ALGAE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MACROALGAE; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; OXYGEN-RICH ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE PCR; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BROWN ALGA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMINANCE; EPIPHYTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MACROAGGREGATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RED ALGA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LAMINARIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RED ALGA; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; LAMINARIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOPHYTA; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LAMINARIA RODRIGUEZII; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA; OSMUNDARIA; OTUS; PHYLLOPHORA CRISPA;

EID: 84855754193     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05904-11     Document Type: Article

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