Isolation, characterization, and ecology of cold-active, chemolithotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5562-5568

  Sattley, W Matthew ^a   Madigan, Michael T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; ECOLOGY; LAKES; MORPHOLOGY; SULFUR;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CHEMOLITHOTROPHS; POPULATION PEAKS; SULFIDIC WATERS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

GENOMIC DNA; ICE; LAKE WATER; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE;

ADAPTATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; FREEZE TOLERANCE; ICE LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THIOBACILLUS; WATER SAMPLING;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FRESH WATER; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; THIOBACILLUS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE FRYXELL;

THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS THIOPARUS;

EID: 33747375642     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00702-06     Document Type: Article

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