Depth shapes α- and β-diversities of microbial eukaryotes in surficial sediments of coastal ecosystems

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3722-3737

  Gong, Jun ^a   Shi, Fei ^a,b   Ma, Bin ^a   Dong, Jun ^a   Pachiadaki, Maria ^c   Zhang, Xiaoli ^a   Edgcomb, Virginia P ^c  

^a YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; VANADIUM;

BIODIVERSITY; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SEA; SEDIMENT; STRAMENOPILE;

BIODIVERSITY; CILIOPHORA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; STRAMENOPILES; VANADIUM;

EID: 84973452037     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12763     Document Type: Article

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