Distribution of acI-Actinorhodopsin genes in Baltic Sea salinity gradients indicates adaptation of facultative freshwater photoheterotrophs to brackish waters

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 586-597

  Salka, Ivette ^a   Wurzbacher, Christian ^a   Garcia, Sarahi L ^b   Labrenz, Matthias ^c   Jürgens, Klaus ^c   Grossart, Hans Peter ^a,d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RHODOPSIN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; SEA; SEASON;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FRESH WATER; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; RHODOPSINS, MICROBIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84893015363     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12185     Document Type: Article

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