Prokaryotic community composition and biogeochemical processes in deep subseafloor sediments from the Peru Margin

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-85

  Webster, Gordon ^a,b   John Parkes, R ^b   Cragg, Barry A ^b   Newberry, Carole J ^a   Weightman, Andrew J ^a   Fry, John C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA genes; Deep biosphere; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Geochemistry; Prokaryotic diversity; Subsurface sediments

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; ELECTROKINESIS; GENETIC MARKER; PROKARYOTE; RNA; SEAFLOOR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERE; CHLOROFLEXI; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; GEOCHEMISTRY; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOSARCINA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PERU; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU BASIN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOSARCINALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33746716094     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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