Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4822-4832

  Papineau, Dominic ^a   Walker, Jeffrey J ^a   Mojzsis, Stephen J ^a   Pace, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; COMPOSITION; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES; OCEAN HABITATS; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANOSEDIMENTRY STRUCTURES; PROTEOBACTERIA; STROMATOLITES;

MICROORGANISMS;

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FOSSIL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE; SEA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHONDRICHTHYES; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 23744506517     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4822-4832.2005     Document Type: Article

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