Molecular Characterization of Community Structures and Sulfur Metabolism within Microbial Streamers in Japanese Hot Springs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7044-7057

  Nakagawa, Tatsunori ^a,b   Fukui, Manabu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; RNA; SPRINGS (WATER); SULFIDE MINERALS;

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

WATER BACTERIOLOGY;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; HOT WATER; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA 16S; FRESH WATER; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; METABOLISM; SPRING WATER; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMODESULFOBACTERIA; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; HEAT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

AQUIFEX; AQUIFICACEAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFURIHYDROGENIBIUM; THERMODESULFOBACTERIA;

ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FRESH WATER; HEAT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; SULFUR; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

EID: 0346290976     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7044-7057.2003     Document Type: Article

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