Microbial community analysis of a coastal salt marsh affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Beazley, Melanie J ^a   Martinez, Robert J ^a   Rajan, Suja ^a   Powell, Jessica ^a   Piceno, Yvette M ^b   Tom, Lauren M ^b   Andersen, Gary L ^b   Hazen, Terry C ^c   van Nostrand, Joy D ^d   Zhou, Jizhong ^d   Mortazavi, Behzad ^a,e   Sobecky, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRMICUTES; GRASS; GULF OF MEXICO; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PHYLUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOSPHERIC MICROORGANISM; SALT MARSH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALABAMA; ECOSYSTEM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE; SALTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WETLANDS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; HYMENACHNE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84864020539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041305     Document Type: Article

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