Characterization of Ferroplasma Isolates and Ferroplasma acidarmanus sp. nov., Extreme Acidophiles from Acid Mine Drainage and Industrial Bioleaching Environments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2079-2088

  Dopson, Mark ^a,c   Baker Austin, Craig ^a   Hind, Andrew ^a   Bowman, John P ^b   Bond, Philip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; PH EFFECTS; RNA; YEAST;

GENE SEQUENCING; STRAINS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; DNA; FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; ORGANIC CARBON; RNA 16S;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLEACHING; FERROPLASMA; FERROPLASMA ACIDARMANUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REDUCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; YEAST;

DNA, ARCHAEAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALS, HEAVY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPLASMALES;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FERROPLASMA; FERROPLASMA ACIDARMANUS; FERROPLASMA ACIDIPHILUM;

EID: 3242771843     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2079-2088.2004     Document Type: Article

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