Diversity and distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria in permanently frozen Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6353-6359

  Karr, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Sattley, W Matthew ^a   Rice, Melissa R ^a   Jung, Deborah O ^a   Madigan, Michael T ^a   Achenbach, Laurie A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAKES; REDUCTION; RNA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

LIMNOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; METABOLIC PRIMER SETS; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

MICROORGANISMS;

DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

DEPTH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOCHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DSRA GENE; GENE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIMNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROKARYOTE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FREEZING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE FRYXELL; WORLD;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 26844542757     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6353-6359.2005     Document Type: Article

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