Combined Amplicon Pyrosequencing Assays Reveal Presence of the Apicomplexan "type-N" (cf. Gemmocystis cylindrus) and Chromera velia on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Šlapeta, Jan ^a   Linares, Marjorie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AMPLICON; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; ASSAY; AUSTRALIA; CHROMERA VELIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EFFLUENT; ENTEROBACTERIALES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEMMOCYSTIS CYLINDRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PYROSEQUENCING; SMALL SUBUNIT RRNA GENE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; APICOMPLEXA; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CORAL REEFS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84884748454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076095     Document Type: Article

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