Core microbial functional activities in ocean environments revealed by global metagenomic profiling analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Ferreira, Ari J S ^a   Siam, Rania ^a   Setubal, João C ^b   Moustafa, Ahmed ^a   Sayed, Ahmed ^a   Chambergo, Felipe S ^b   Dawe, Adam S ^c   Ghazy, Mohamed A ^a   Sharaf, Hazem ^a   Ouf, Amged ^a   Alam, Intikhab ^c   Abdel Haleem, Alyaa M ^a   Lehvaslaiho, Heikki ^c   Ramadan, Eman ^a   Antunes, André ^d   Stingl, Ulrich ^c   Archer, John A C ^c   Jankovic, Boris R ^c   Sogin, Mitchell ^e   Bajic, Vladimir B ^c   El Dorry, Hamza ^a   more..

^a The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^e MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; LIGHT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PYROSEQUENCING; TAXONOMY; ADAPTATION; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; LIGHT; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 84903386153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097338     Document Type: Article

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