Diversity of pico- to mesoplankton along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the baltic sea

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Hu, Yue O O ^a   Karlson, Bengt ^b   Charvet, Sophie ^c   Andersson, Anders F ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Baltic Sea; Brackish; Marine microbiology; Metabarcoding; Microbial ecology; Protists

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 18S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CYANOPHAGE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HACROBIA; HAPTOPHYTA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARKER GENE; MESOPLANKTON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; PLANCTOMYCETES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; STRAMENOPILE; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84973541011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00679     Document Type: Article

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