Dramatic shifts in benthic microbial eukaryote communities following the deepwater horizon oil spill

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Bik, Holly M ^a,b   Halanych, Kenneth M ^c   Sharma, Jyotsna ^d   Thomas, W Kelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; SCAVENGER; RNA 18S;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PREDATOR; SEDIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GULF OF MEXICO; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; GENETIC MARKERS; GULF OF MEXICO; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862007573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038550     Document Type: Article

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