Do Patterns of Bacterial Diversity along Salinity Gradients Differ from Those Observed for Macroorganisms?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Jianjun ^a   Yang, Dongmei ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a,b   Shen, Ji ^a   van der Gast, Christopher ^c   Hahn, Martin W ^d   Wu, Qinglong ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAKE; MACROORGANISMS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMS BY SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; SALINITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREND STUDY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84859228145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027597     Document Type: Article

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