Microbial ecology of four coral atolls in the Northern Line Islands.

Microbes are key players in both healthy and degraded coral reefs. A combination of metagenomics, microscopy, culturing, and water chemistry were used to characterize microbial communities on four coral atolls in the Northern Line Islands, central Pacific. Kingman, a small uninhabited atoll which li...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Olga Pantos, Steven Smriga, Robert A Edwards, Florent Angly, Linda Wegley, Mark Hatay, Dana Hall, Elysa Brown, Matthew Haynes, Lutz Krause, Enric Sala, Stuart A Sandin, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Bette L Willis, Farooq Azam, Nancy Knowlton, Forest Rohwer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2253183?pdf=render