Molecular analyses of methyl-coenzyme M reductase α-subunit (mcrA) genes in rice field soil and enrichment cultures reveal the methanogenic phenotype of a novel archaeal lineage

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 194-204

  Lueders, T ^a   Chin, K J ^a   Conrad, R ^a   Friedrich, M ^a  

^a M P Inst Terrestrische Mikrobiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; METHANOSAETACEAE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035206819     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2001.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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