Contrasting genomic properties of free-living and particle-attached microbial assemblages within a coastal ecosystem

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Maria W ^a   Allen, Lisa Zeigler ^b   Allen, Andrew E ^b   Herfort, Lydie ^a   Simon, Holly M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia River coastal margin; Environmental water; Metagenome analysis; Microbial communities; Particle attached and free living microbes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LEVO FUCOSIDASE; ALPHA MANNOSIDASE; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; CYTOCHROME C; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; ORGANIC CARBON; PERMEASE; PHEOPHYTIN; PROTEIN TONB; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL WATERS; ESTUARINE SPECIES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME SIZE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; NONHUMAN; PELAGIBACTER UBIQUE; PHOTOHETEROTROPH; PYROSEQUENCING; RHODOBACTERACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; THAUMARCHAEOTA; WATER SAMPLING;

ARCHAEA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84884227995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00120     Document Type: Article

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