Nutrient-Controlled Niche Differentiation of Western Lake Erie Cyanobacterial Populations Revealed via Metatranscriptomic Surveys

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 604-615

  Harke, Matthew J ^a   Davis, Timothy W ^b   Watson, Susan B ^c   Gobler, Christopher J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; LAKES; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POTABLE WATER; UREA; WATER SUPPLY;

CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS; CYANOBACTERIAL POPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS; NICHE DIFFERENTIATION; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; NITROGEN FIXATION GENES; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; TOXIC CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

AMMONIA; DRINKING WATER; MICROCYSTIN; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UREA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMMONIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; TOXIN;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MICROCYSTIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OHIO; PHYSIOLOGY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; PLANKTOTHRIX;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; NITROGEN; OHIO; PHOSPHORUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84955296152     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03931     Document Type: Article

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