Diversity and Distribution in Hypersaline Microbial Mats of Bacteria Related to Chloroflexus spp

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 4365-4371

  Nübel, Ulrich ^a,d   Bateson, Mary M ^a   Madigan, Michael T ^b   Kühl, Michael ^c   Ward, David M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROBI; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE;

CHLOROBI; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0035462963     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.9.4365-4371.2001     Document Type: Article

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