Metatranscriptomics of the marine sponge Geodia barretti: Tackling phylogeny and function of its microbial community

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1308-1324

  Radax, Regina ^a   Rattei, Thomas ^a   Lanzen, Anders ^b   Bayer, Christoph ^a   Rapp, Hans Tore ^b,c   Urich, Tim ^a,b   Schleper, Christa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Uni Research AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GEODIA; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; GEODIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PORIBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); GEODIA; GEODIA BARRETTI;

EID: 84859945291     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02714.x     Document Type: Article

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