Importance of saprotrophic freshwater fungi for pollen degradation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wurzbacher, Christian ^a   Rösel, Stefan ^a   Rychła, Anna ^a   Grossart, Hans Peter ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITROGEN; PROTEINASE; FRESH WATER; LEUCINE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; BALTIC SEA; BASIDIOMYCETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOMYCOTA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DECOMPOSER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENZYME ASSAY; FIRMICUTES; FRESHWATER SPECIES; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOSM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PH; POLLEN COMPETITION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SAPROTROPH; SPECIES DOMINANCE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER ANALYSIS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME;

AMINOPEPTIDASES; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; FUNGI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LAKES; LEUCINE; NITROGEN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84899632740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094643     Document Type: Article

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