Low diversity of planktonic bacteria in the tropical ocean

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-9

  Milici, Mathias ^a   Tomasch, Jürgen ^a   Wos Oxley, Melissa L ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Jáuregui, Ruy ^a   Camarinha Silva, Amelia ^a,c   Deng, Zhi Luo ^a   Plumeier, Iris ^a   Giebel, Helge Ansgar ^b   Wurst, Mascha ^b   Pieper, Dietmar H ^a   Simon, Meinhard ^b   Wagner Döbler, Irene ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PLANKTON; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84954102971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19054     Document Type: Article

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