Methanogen communities and Bacteria along an ecohydrological gradient in a northern raised bog complex

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1547-1557

  Juottonen, Heli ^a   Galand, Pierre E ^a,c   Tuittila, Eeva Stiina ^a   Laine, Jukka ^a,b   Fritze, Hannu ^b   Yrjälä, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; METHANE; METHYL COENZYME M REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 25144493755     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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