Microbial Communities Associated with Geological Horizons in Coastal Subseafloor Sediments from the Sea of Okhotsk

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7224-7235

  Inagaki, Fumio ^a   Suzuki, Masae ^a   Takai, Ken ^a   Oida, Hanako ^a   Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko ^a   Aoki, Kaori ^b   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a,c   Horikoshi, Koki ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CLAY; GENES; POROUS MATERIALS; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

CULTIVATION DEPENDENT ANALYSIS; GENE FRAGMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARTICLE; CLAY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELAGIC ZONE; RNA GENE; SEA; SEDIMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VOLCANIC ASH; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CRENARCHAEOTA; FRAXINUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 2142857748     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7224-7235.2003     Document Type: Article

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