Phylogenetic diversity of subsurface marine microbial communities from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

doi:10.1128/aem.59.5.1294-1302.1993

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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...

Topics

Bacteria
Base Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
DNA, Bacterial
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
RNA, Bacterial
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Water Microbiology

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