Prokaryotic assemblages and metagenomes in pelagic zones of the South China Sea

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tseng, Ching Hung ^a,b,c   Chiang, Pei Wen ^b   Lai, Hung Chun ^b,d   Shiah, Fuh Kwo ^e   Hsu, Ting Chang ^e   Chen, Yi Lung ^e   Wen, Liang Saw ^d   Tseng, Chun Mao ^d   Shieh, Wung Yang ^d   Saeed, Isaam ^f   Halgamuge, Saman ^f   Tang, Sen Lin ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metagenomics; Ocean; Prokaryotic biodiversity

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; EXONUCLEASE; PERMEASE; TRANSPOSASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; UREASE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOME SIZE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PELAGIC ZONE; PILOT STUDY; PROKARYOTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZONATION; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONUCLEASES; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METAGENOMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UREASE; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84925350754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1434-3     Document Type: Article

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