The role of planktonic Flavobacteria in processing algal organic matter in coastal East Antarctica revealed using metagenomics and metaproteomics

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1302-1317

  Williams, Timothy J ^a   Wilkins, David ^a   Long, Emilie ^a,b   Evans, Flavia ^a   Demaere, Mathew Z ^a   Raftery, Mark J ^a   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER;

ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOMICS;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; EUKARYOTA; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOMICS; SEAWATER;

ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; POLARIBACTER; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84876484844     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12017     Document Type: Article

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