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Phylogenetic diversity of subsurface marine microbial communities from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 1993
Fuhrman J A, McCallum K, Davis A A
Abstract excerpt
The extent of the diversity of marine prokaryotes is not well known, primarily because of poor cultivability. However, new techniques permit the characterization of such organisms without culturing, via 16S rRNA sequences obtained directly from biomass. We performed such an analysis by polymerase chain reaction amplification with universal primers on five oligotrophic open-ocean samples: from 100-m (three...
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- Bacteria
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny