Ciliate and bacterial communities associated with White Syndrome and Brown Band Disease in reef-building corals

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2184-2199

  Sweet, Michael ^a   Bythell, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CILIOPHORA; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; ARCOBACTER; ARCOBACTER SP. SOLAR LAKE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84864388798     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02746.x     Document Type: Article

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