Alkane hydroxylase gene (alkB) phylotype composition and diversity in northern Gulf of Mexico bacterioplankton

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Conor B ^a   Tolar, Bradley B ^b   Hollibaugh, James T ^b   King, Gary M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkane hydroxylases; AlkB; Bacterioplankton; Diversity; Gulf of mexico

Indexed keywords

ALKANE 1 MONOOXYGENASE; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GULF OF MEXICO; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 84892166637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00370     Document Type: Article

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