Highly diverse community structure in a remote central Tibetan geothermal spring does not display monotonic variation to thermal stress

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-91

  Yim, Lau Chui ^a   Hongmei, Jing ^a   Aitchison, Jonathan C ^a   Pointing, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chloroflexus; Geothermal springs; Hot springs; Roseiflexus; Synechococcus; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHINA; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EUBACTERIUM; HEAT STRESS; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; THERMAL SPRING; THERMUS;

ARCHAEA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUBACTERIUM; HOT SPRINGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; THERMUS; TIBET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; THERMUS;

EID: 33745027420     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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