Down under the tunic: Bacterial biodiversity hotspots and widespread ammonia-oxidizing archaea in coral reef ascidians

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 575-588

  Erwin, Patrick M ^a,b   Pineda, Mari Carmen ^a   Webster, Nicole ^c   Turon, Xavier ^d   López Legentil, Susanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

coral reef; holobiont; microbiota; pyrosequencing; Sea squirt; thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84894307158     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.188     Document Type: Article

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