Geographically conserved microbiomes of four temperate water tunicates

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 470-478

  Cahill, Patrick L ^a   Fidler, Andrew E ^b   Hopkins, Grant A ^a   Wood, Susanna A ^a,c  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84964659794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12391     Document Type: Article

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