Bacterial assemblages shifts from healthy to yellow band disease states in the dominant reef coral Montastraea faveolata

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-96

  Cróquer, Aldo ^a   Bastidas, Carolina ^a   Elliott, Amy ^b   Sweet, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORAL REEFS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 84873306071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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