Impact of a phytoplankton bloom on the diversity of the active bacterial community in the southern North Sea as revealed by metatranscriptomic approaches

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 378-389

  Wemheuer, Bernd ^a   Güllert, Simon ^a,c   Billerbeck, Sara ^b   Giebel, Helge Ansgar ^b   Voget, Sonja ^a   Simon, Meinhard ^b   Daniel, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c Microbiology and Biotechnology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial diversity; Bacterioplankton; German Bight; Metatranscriptome; Pyrotag sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; METATRANSCRIPTOME; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GERMAN BIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PYROTAG SEQUENCING; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; GERMAN BIGHT; METATRANSCRIPTOME; PYROTAG SEQUENCING;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84895074799     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12230     Document Type: Article

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