Comparison of bacterial communities in sands and water at beaches with bacterial water quality violations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Halliday, Elizabeth ^a   McLellan, Sandra L ^b   Amaral Zettler, Linda A ^c,d   Sogin, Mitchell L ^c   Gast, Rebecca J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; SAND; SEASHORE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BATHING BEACHES; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84897139449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090815     Document Type: Article

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