Isolated faecal bacterial communities found for Weddell seals, Leptonychotes weddellii, at White Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Polar Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1857-1864

  Banks, Jonathan C ^a,b   Cary, S Craig ^a   Hogg, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

16S; ARISA; Clone libraries; Enteric microbiota; Isolation by distance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FECAL COLIFORM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PINNIPED;

ANTARCTICA; BAY OF PLENTY; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WHITE ISLAND;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 85027943743     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: 14322056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1567-x     Document Type: Article

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