Spatial scales of bacterial diversity in cold-water coral reef ecosystems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Schöttner, Sandra ^a,c   Wild, Christian ^b   Hoffmann, Friederike ^c,d   Boetius, Antje ^a   Ramette, Alban ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Uni Research AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GEOMORPHOLOGY; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; MADREPORA OCULATA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LOPHELIA PERTUSA; MADREPORA OCULATA;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLD TEMPERATURE; CORAL REEFS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84857711499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032093     Document Type: Article

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