Discovery and description of giant submarine smectite cones on the seafloor in Eyjafjordur, northern Iceland, and a novel thermal microbial habitat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 827-833

  Marteinsson, V T ^a   Kristjansson J K ^a   Kristmannsdottir H ^a   Dahlkvist, M ^a   Saemundsson K ^a   Hannington, M ^a   Petursdottir S K ^a   Geptner, A ^a   Stoffers, P ^a  

^a Prokaria Ltd   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ORGANISM; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SMECTITE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM; DESULFUROCOCCUS MOBILIS; ICELAND; KORARCHAEOTA; NONHUMAN; PH; SEA; THERMAL SPRING; THERMONEMA; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GENES, RRNA; HEAT; ICELAND; MAGNESIUM; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILICATES;

ICELAND;

EID: 0035142508     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.2.827-833.2001     Document Type: Article

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