Ecological structuring of bacterial and archaeal taxa in surface ocean waters

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 373-385

  Yilmaz, Pelin ^a,b   Iversen, Morten H ^c   Hankeln, Wolfgang ^a,b   Kottmann, Renzo ^a   Quast, Christian ^a   Glöckner, Frank O ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Global Ocean Sampling expedition; Marine habitats; Microbial community structure; Ontology; Ribosomal RNA

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENOMICS; HABITAT TYPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SEA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 84863783885     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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