Spatial and species variations in bacterial communities associated with corals from the Red Sea as revealed by pyrosequencing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7173-7184

  Lee, On On ^a   Yang, Jiangke ^a   Bougouffa, Salim ^a   Wang, Yong ^a,b   Batang, Zenon ^b   Tian, Renmao ^a   Al Suwailem, Abdulaziz ^b   Qian, Pei Yuan ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PRISTINE WATERS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PYROSEQUENCING; RED SEA; SERRATIA; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

RNA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RIBOTYPING;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INDIAN OCEAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RIBOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ACHROMOBACTER; ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIAE; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS; SERRATIA; STENOTROPHOMONAS; VIBRIO;

EID: 84868355101     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01111-12     Document Type: Article

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