Distribution patterns of bacterioplankton in the oligotrophic south-eastern Mediterranean Sea

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Keuter, Sabine ^a,b   Rahav, Eyal ^a   Herut, Barak ^a   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deep sea pelagic bacteria; Levantine basin; Microbial community analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON; DEEP SEA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SILICIC ACID;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (SOUTHEAST);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PLANKTON; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84949309462     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv070     Document Type: Article

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