Remarkable diversity of phototrophic purple bacteria in a permanently frozen Antarctic lake

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4910-4914

  Karr, Elizabeth A ^a   Sattley, W Matthew ^a   Jung, Deborah O ^a   Madigan, Michael T ^a   Achenbach, Laurie A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAKES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

FROZEN LAKES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FROZEN LAKE; GAS VESICLE; LAKE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHOTOTROPHIC PURPLE BACTERIUM; PRODUCTIVITY; PUFM GENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FREEZING; FRESH WATER; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANTARCTICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLACEAE;

EID: 0042029315     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4910-4914.2003     Document Type: Article

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