Terrestrial runoff controls the bacterial community composition of biofilms along a water quality gradient in the great barrier reef

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7786-7791

  Witt, Verena ^a,b   Wild, Christian ^b   Uthickea, Sven ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BACTERIAL BIOFILM; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GREAT BARRIER REEF; MICROBIAL BIOFILM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER QUALITY GRADIENTS;

BIOFILMS; CHLOROPHYLL; RNA; RUNOFF;

WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; BARRIER REEF; BIOFILM; BIOINDICATOR; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEFS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84868622954     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01623-12     Document Type: Article

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