Diversity of Archaea in marine sediments from Skan Bay, Alaska, including cultivated methanogens, and description of Methanogenium boonei sp. nov.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 407-414

  Kendall, Melissa M ^a,c   Wardlaw, George D ^b   Tang, Chin F ^a   Bonin, Adam S ^a,d   Liu, Yitai ^a   Valentine, David L ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Integral Consulting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDRATES; METHANE; METHANOGENS; SEDIMENTS; STRAIN;

ACETICLASTIC METHANOGENS; COLD SEEPS; GEOCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; METHANOMICROBIALES;

BIODIVERSITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE;

MARINE SEDIMENT; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEW SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLD SEEP SPECIES; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; METHANOGEN; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOGENIUM BOONEI; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSARCINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; SPECIES CULTIVATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ACETATES; ALASKA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRENARCHAEOTA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EURYARCHAEOTA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHANE; METHANOMICROBIACEAE; METHANOSARCINALES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; SKAN BAY; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOGENIUM; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSARCINALES;

EID: 33846452179     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01154-06     Document Type: Article

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