Thermophilic temperature optimum for crenarchaeol synthesis and its implication for archaeal evolution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4419-4422

  Zhang, Chuanlun L ^a   Pearson, Ann ^b   Li, Yi Liang ^a,d   Mills, Gary ^a   Wiegel, Juergen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT SPRINGS; LIPIDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOL; ISOPRENOID LIPID CRENARCHAEOL; MARINE RADIATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CRENARCHAEOL; ISOPRENOID; LIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COLONIZATION; EVOLUTION; LIPID; OCEAN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; SEA; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FREEZING; GEOGRAPHY; GLYCERYL ETHERS; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEASONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA;

EID: 33745161041     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00191-06     Document Type: Article

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