Macroscopic streamer growths in acidic, metal-rich mine waters in North Wales consist of novel and remarkably simple bacterial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 2022-2030

  Hallberg, Kevin B ^a   Coupland, Kris ^a   Kimura, Sakurako ^a   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; COMPOSITION; COPPER MINES; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; LIBRARIES; MICROORGANISMS; MINES;

BIOMOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH); HETEROTROPHIC ACIDOPHILES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; COPPER; IRON; METAL; PYRITE; RNA 16S; UREA; WATER;

BIOFILM;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDOBACTERIUM CAPSULATUM; ACIDOCELLA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GALLIONELLA; GALLIONELLA FERRUGINEA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER ANALYSIS;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COPPER; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IRON; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WALES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDOBACTERIUM CAPSULATUM; ACIDOCELLA; ACIDOPHILES; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GALLIONELLA; GALLIONELLA FERRUGINEA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33644950982     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.2022-2030.2006     Document Type: Article

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