Geographic barriers isolate endemic populations of hyperthermophilic archaea

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5635, 2003, Pages 976-978

  Whitaker, Rachel J ^a   Grogan, Dennis W ^b   Taylor, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; MICROORGANISM; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ECOLOGY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0042242559     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086909     Document Type: Article

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