Natural Communities of Novel Archaea and Bacteria Growing in Cold Sulfurous Springs with a String-of-Pearls-Like Morphology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2336-2344

  Rudolph, Christian ^a   Wanner, Gerhard ^b   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; COLD; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR;

EID: 0035347175     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.5.2336-2344.2001     Document Type: Article

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