Archaeal community diversity and abundance changes along a natural salinity gradient in estuarine sediments

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Webster, Gordon ^a,b   O'Sullivan, Louise A ^a,b   Meng, Yiyu ^a   Williams, Angharad S ^a   Sass, Andrea M ^a,b   Watkins, Andrew J ^b   Parkes, R John ^b   Weightman, Andrew J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaea; Estuarine sediment; Methanogens; Pyrosequencing; QPCR; Salinity gradient

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EUKARYOTE; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

COLNE ESTUARY; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARCHAEA; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOCOCCOIDES; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSAETA; METHANOSARCINA; PROKARYOTA;

ARCHAEAL DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE MCRA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTUARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SALINITY; SEDIMENT;

ARCHAEA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ESTUARIES; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84944170892     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiu025     Document Type: Article

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