Unexpected population distribution in a microbial mat community: Sulfate-reducing bacteria localized to the highly oxic chemocline in contrast to a eukaryotic preference for anoxia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4659-4665

  Minz, Dror ^a,d   Fishbain, Susan ^a   Green, Stefan J ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^b,e   Cohen, Yehuda ^c   Rittmann, Bruce E ^a   Stahl, David A ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; RNA 16S;

HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; ECOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA PROBE; SALINITY; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFONEMA; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032864978     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4659-4665.1999     Document Type: Article

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