Phylogenetic signals of salinity and season in bacterial community composition across the salinity gradient of the baltic sea

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Herlemann, Daniel P R ^a   Lundin, Daniel ^b   Andersson, Anders F ^c   Labrenz, Matthias ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brackish microbiology; Ecological coherence; Estuarine ecology; Microbial ecology; SAR11; Verrucomicrobia

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SEASON; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC RANK;

EID: 85006830365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01883     Document Type: Article

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