Assessing the short-term variability of bacterial composition in background aerosols of the Eastern Mediterranean during a rapid change of meteorological conditions

Aerobiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 429-441

  Polymenakou, P N ^a   Mandalakis, M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Air mass origin; Airborne microorganisms; Background aerosols; Mediterranean Sea

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA FRAGMENT; SEA WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AEGEAN SEA; AEROSOL; AIR; AIR MASS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDETES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEA; SEA WATER AEROSOL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPIROCHETE; SPOROGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WIND;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84880310891     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: 15733025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-013-9295-1     Document Type: Article

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