Molecular community profiling reveals impacts of time, space, and disease status on the bacterial community associated with the Caribbean sponge Aplysina cauliformis

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 268-279

  Olson, Julie B ^a   Thacker, Robert W ^b   Gochfeld, Deborah J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Associated bacterial communities; Leptolyngbya sp; Sponge disease; Symbionts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ETIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPONGE; SYMBIONT;

APLYSINA; APLYSINA CAULIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOLYNGBYA; PORIFERA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SPONGIARUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATED BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOLYNGBYA SP; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SPONGE DISEASE; SYMBIONT;

ASSOCIATED BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; LEPTOLYNGBYA SP; SPONGE DISEASE; SYMBIONTS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PORIFERA;

EID: 84891495350     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12222     Document Type: Article

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