Seasonal succession of free-living bacterial communities in coastal waters of the western antarctic peninsula

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Luria, Catherine M ^a   Amaral Zettler, Linda A ^a,b   Ducklow, Hugh W ^c   Rich, Jeremy J ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Antarctica; Bacterial community composition; Bacterial production; Ecological succession; Pelagibacter ubique (SAR11); Polaribacter; Rhodobacteraceae

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; RNA 16S;

ALGAL BLOOM; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; DNA EXTRACTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD WEB; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RHODOBACTERACEAE; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 85006760053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01731     Document Type: Article

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