Bacterial diversity and ecosystem function of filamentous microbial mats from aphotic (cave) sulfidic springs dominated by chemolithoautotrophic "Epsilonproteobacteria"

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-53

  Engel, Annette Summers ^a   Porter, Megan L ^b   Stern, Libby A ^a   Quinlan, Sarah ^b   Bennett, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Carbon isotopes; Cave; Chemolithoautotrophy; Clone library; Epsilonproteobacteria

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DNA 16S; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SULFIDE; SULFUR; WATER;

CAVERNICOLOUS SPECIES; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPHY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL MAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPRING WATER;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROBIUM; CLONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL MAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; THIOBACILLUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SULFIDES; WATER SUPPLY; WYOMING;

LOWER KANE CAVE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; WYOMING;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBI; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS; THIOTHRIX;

EID: 10644225888     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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