Annual dynamics of North Sea bacterioplankton: Seasonal variability superimposes short-term variation

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Lucas, Judith ^a   Wichels, Antje ^a   Teeling, Hanno ^b   Chafee, Meghan ^b   Scharfe, Mirco ^a   Gerdts, Gunnar ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA tag sequencing; Bacterioplankton community composition; Bacterioplankton succession; North Sea; Phytoplankton bloom

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; EURYARCHAEOTA; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; ROSEOBACTER; SEASON;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; FRESH WATER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROSEOBACTER; SEASONS;

EID: 84947564050     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv099     Document Type: Article

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