Quantitative microbial ecology through stable isotope probing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 7570-7581

  Hungate, Bruce A ^a   Mau, Rebecca L ^a   Schwartz, Egbert ^a   Gregory Caporaso, J ^a   Dijkstra, Paul ^a   van Gestel, Natasja ^a   Koch, Benjamin J ^a   Liu, Cindy M ^b,c   McHugh, Theresa A ^a,e   Marks, Jane C ^a   Morrissey, Ember M ^a   Price, Lance B ^b,d  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Translational Genomics Institute   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON; DNA; ECOLOGY; GLUCOSE; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ISOTOPE ENRICHMENTS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING; TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION;

ISOTOPES;

BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY; TRACER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ISOTOPE LABELING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84944385116     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02280-15     Document Type: Article

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