Deep sequencing reveals diversity and community structure of complex microbiota in five Mediterranean sponges

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 687, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 341-351

  Schmitt, Susanne ^a,b   Hentschel, Ute ^a   Taylor, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

454 amplicon pyrosequencing; Bacterial symbiont; Core microbiota; Microbial diversity; Sponge; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

APLYSINA AEROPHOBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); OTUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOCORTICIUM JARREI;

EID: 84859156654     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0799-9     Document Type: Article

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