Patterns and drivers of bacterial α- and β-diversity across vertical profiles from surface to subsurface sediments

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 731-739

  Luna, Gian Marco ^a   Corinaldesi, Cinzia ^b   Rastelli, Eugenio ^b   Danovaro, Roberto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; VIRUSES;

EID: 84884922974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12075     Document Type: Article

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