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SUBMITTER: Giebel HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3105675 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giebel Helge-Ansgar HA Kalhoefer Daniela D Lemke Andreas A Thole Sebastian S Gahl-Janssen Renate R Simon Meinhard M Brinkhoff Thorsten T
The ISME journal 20100701 1
The Roseobacter group and SAR11 clade constitute high proportions of the marine bacterioplankton, but only scarce information exists on the abundance of distinct populations of either lineage. Therefore, we quantified the abundance of the largest cluster of the Roseobacter group, the RCA (Roseobacter clade affiliated) cluster together with the SAR11 clade by quantitative PCR in the southern and eastern North Sea. The RCA cluster constituted up to 15 and 21% of total bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA ( ...[more]