Novel, attached, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria at shallow hydrothermal vents possess vacuoles not involved in respiratory nitrate accumulation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 7487-7496

  Kalanetra, Karen M ^a   Huston, Sherry L ^a   Nelson, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAWATER; SULFUR;

BIOTIC SUBSTRATES; CELL LYSATES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; VACUOLES;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SULFUR OXIDE;

BACTERIUM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BEGGIATOA; CELL LYSATE; CELL VACUOLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SULFUR BACTERIUM; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; THIOTRICHACEAE; VACUOLES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WHITE POINT; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEGGIATOA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THIOMARGARITA; THIOPLOCA;

EID: 10444233619     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7487-7496.2004     Document Type: Article

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