Composition and Predictive Functional Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Seawater, Sediment and Sponges in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 889-903

  Cleary, Daniel F R ^a   de Voogd, Nicole J ^b   Polónia, Ana R M ^a   Freitas, Rossana ^a   Gomes, Newton C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; KEGG orthologs; Makassar; Ordination; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; INDONESIA; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPONGE (PORIFERA); XESTOSPONGIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDONESIA; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; XESTOSPONGIA;

EID: 84946486234     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-015-0632-5     Document Type: Article

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