Comparing the Characterization of Coastal Marine Bacterioplankton Population Dynamics and Community Ecology by Four 16S Ribosomal RNA Primer Sets

Emma Wear1, Elizabeth Wilbanks1, Craig Nelson2 and Craig A Carlson3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean, Earth Science, and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute/Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States