Revealing microbial functional activities in the Red Sea sponge Stylissa carteri by metatranscriptomics

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3683-3698

  Moitinho Silva, Lucas ^a   Seridi, Loqmane ^b   Ryu, Taewoo ^b   Voolstra, Christian R ^b   Ravasi, Timothy ^b   Hentschel, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEA; PROKARYOTA; STYLISSA CARTERI; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

AMMONIA; CARRIER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CORAL REEF; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CORAL REEFS; INDIAN OCEAN; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84921603202     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12533     Document Type: Article

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