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

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

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