Microbial composition of near-boiling silica-depositing thermal springs throughout Yellowstone National Park

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5123-5135

  Blank, Carrine E ^a   Cady, Sherry L ^a   Pace, Norman R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA;

HYBRIDIZATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; SILICON DIOXIDE; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; THERMAL SPRING;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL LINEAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOCRINIS RUBER; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WYOMING;

UNITED STATES;

AQUIFICALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMOCRINIS; THERMOCRINIS RUBER;

EID: 0036793770     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.10.5123-5135.2002     Document Type: Article

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