Deoxygenation alters bacterial diversity and community composition in the ocean's largest oxygen minimum zone

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Beman, J Michael ^a   Carolan, Molly T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; OXYGEN; RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CHROMATIALES; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEOXYGENATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA EXTRACTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIALES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84900344325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3705     Document Type: Article

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