Archaeal Diversity in Waters from Deep South African Gold Mines

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 5750-5760

  Takai, Ken ^a,b   Moser, Duane P ^c   DeFlaun, Mary ^d   Onstott, Tullis C ^c   Fredrickson, James K ^a,e  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The Shaw Group Inc   (United States)

^e MS P7 50 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; GOLD; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

ARCHAEA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE LIBRARY; GOLD; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0035656111     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.21.5750-5760.2001     Document Type: Article

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