Microbial diversity in coastal subsurface sediments: A cultivation approach using various electron acceptors and substrate gradients

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7819-7830

  Köpke, Beate ^a   Wilms, Reinhard ^a   Engelen, Bert ^a   Cypionka, Heribert ^a   Sass, Henrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; COASTAL ENGINEERING; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS;

SEDIMENTS;

DNA; IRON COMPLEX; MANGANESE OXIDE; NITRATE; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FERMENTATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CHLORIDES; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FUSOBACTERIUM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SULFATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 29144494967     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.7819-7830.2005     Document Type: Article

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