High nutrient transport and cycling potential revealed in the microbial metagenome of australian sea lion (neophoca cinerea) faeces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Lavery, Trish J ^a   Roudnew, Ben ^a   Seymour, Justin ^a,b   Mitchell, James G ^a   Jeffries, Thomas ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DISSOLUTION; DNA METABOLISM; FECES MICROFLORA; FIRMICUTES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTESTINE FLORA; IRON METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEA; SEAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WHALE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; MUS; NEOPHOCA CINEREA; OTARIIDAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FECES; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MICE; SEA LIONS; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS; WHALES;

EID: 84861013406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036478     Document Type: Article

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