Microplanktonic community structure in a coastal system relative to a Phaeocystis bloom inferred from morphological and tag pyrosequencing methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Monchy, Sébastien ^a   Grattepanche, Jean David ^a   Breton, Elsa ^a   Meloni, Dionigia ^b,c   Sanciu, Giovanna ^b,c   Chabé, Magali ^b   Delhaes, Laurence ^b   Viscogliosi, Eric ^b   Sime Ngando, Télesphore ^d   Christaki, Urania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GYRODINIUM FUSIFORME; GYRODINIUM SPIRALE; HAPTOPHYTA; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROPLANKTON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

DIATOMS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HAPTOPHYTA; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; GYMNODINIACEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PHAEOCYSTACEAE; PHAEOCYSTIS; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA;

EID: 84863092202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039924     Document Type: Article

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