Unexpected diversity and complexity of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3685-3695

  Ley, Ruth E ^a,f   Harris, J Kirk ^a   Wilcox, Joshua ^a   Spear, John R ^a,g   Miller, Scott R ^b   Bebout, Brad M ^c   Maresca, Julia A ^d   Bryant, Donald A ^d   Sogin, Mitchell L ^e   Pace, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation s Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMASS; COMPLEXATION; GENES; MICROELECTRODES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PIGMENTS;

BACTERIAL PHYLA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS; UNEXPECTED DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY;

GENOMIC DNA; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; OXYGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; DNA; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; MEXICO; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; GUERRERO NEGRO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES;

EID: 33646584137     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3685-3695.2006     Document Type: Article

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