Physiological diversity of Roseobacter clade bacteria co-occurring during a phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-48

  Hahnke, Sarah ^a,c   Brock, Nelson L ^b   Zell, Claudia ^b,d   Simon, Meinhard ^a   Dickschat, Jeroen S ^b   Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DMSP degradation; Niche separation; North Sea; Roseobacter clade; Substrate utilization

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; VOLATILE AGENT;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEEDING; GENE CLUSTER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH SEA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSEOBACTER;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; ROSEOBACTER; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALGAE; ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 84874306600     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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