The microbiome of the red sea coral stylophora pistillata is dominated by tissue-associated endozoicomonas bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4759-4762

  Bayer, Till ^a   Neave, Matthew ^a,b   Alsheikh Hussain, Areej ^a   Aranda, Manuel ^a   Yum, Lauren K ^a   Mincer, Tracy ^b   Hughen, Konrad ^b   Apprill, Amy ^b   Voolstra, Christian R ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBIOME; PISTILLATA; RED SEA;

TISSUE;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOME; CORAL;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INDIAN OCEAN; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SAUDI ARABIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84880658726     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00695-13     Document Type: Article

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