Shifts in microbial community structure and activity in the ultra-oligotrophic eastern mediterranean sea driven by the deposition of saharan dust and European Aerosols

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Guo, Cui ^a   Xia, Xiaomin ^a   Pitta, Paraskevi ^b   Herut, Barak ^c   Rahav, Eyal ^c   Berman Frank, Ilana ^d   Giannakourou, Antonia ^b   Tsiola, Anastasia ^b   Tsagaraki, Tatiana M ^b   Liu, Hongbin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; Atmospheric deposition; Bacterial community structure; Bacterial production; Pyrosequencing; Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008657134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00170     Document Type: Article

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