Bacterial associates of two caribbean coral species reveal species-specific distribution and geographic variability

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6438-6449

  Morrow, Kathleen M ^a   Moss, Anthony G ^a   Chadwick, Nanette E ^a   Liles, Mark R ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGES; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BACTERIAL GENUS; BACTERIAL TAXA; CORAL REEF COMMUNITIES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE FUNCTION; LIFE HISTORY STRATEGY; MICROBIOTAS; PORITES; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SCLERACTINIAN CORALS; SPATIAL SCALE; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

ELECTROPHORESIS; REEFS;

BACTERIA;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; CORAL REEF; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROKINESIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA BARCODING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RIBOTYPING;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CARIBBEAN REGION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RIBOTYPING;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; SAINT THOMAS [VIRGIN ISLANDS U.S.]; VIRGIN ISLANDS; VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.);

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; OCEANOSPIRILLALES; PORITES ASTREOIDES; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84866172415     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01162-12     Document Type: Article

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