Specificity of associations between bacteria and the coral Pocillopora meandrina during early development

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7467-7475

  Apprill, Amy ^a,b,d   Marlow, Heather Q ^c,e   Martindale, Mark Q ^c   Rappé, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CORAL HEALTH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MARINE BACTERIUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; ROSEOBACTERS; RRNA GENES; STERILE SEAWATER; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SEAWATER; VIRUSES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

BACTERIUM; CORAL; EMBRYO; HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMORPHISM; SEAWATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDOCYTOSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; POCILLOPORA MEANDRINA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; ROSEOBACTER; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84868371263     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01232-12     Document Type: Article

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