Transient Shifts in Bacterial Communities Associated with the Temperate Gorgonian Paramuricea clavata in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  La Rivière, Marie ^a   Roumagnac, Marie ^a   Garrabou, Joaquim ^a,b   Bally, Marc ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LIBRARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAHELLACEAE; HOST RANGE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEANOSPIRILLALES; ORGANISMS BY MUTUAL INTERACTION; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIBOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84874251443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057385     Document Type: Article

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