Microbial community of a hydrothermal mud vent underneath the deep-sea anoxic brine lake Urania (Eastern Mediterranean)

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-188

  Yakimov, Michail M ^a   Giuliano, Laura ^a   Cappello, Simone ^a   Denaro, Renata ^a   Golyshin, Peter N ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Deep sea hypersaline anoxic basins; Hydrothermal mud fluids; Microbial community structure and function

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CLADISTICS; CLONE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; EXTREMOPHILE; HETEROTROPHY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; PROKARYOTE; REDUCTION; SALINE LAKE; SULFATE;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMUS;

ANOXIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; THERMUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA; URANIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES (CLASS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA; THERMUS; URANIA;

EID: 33947156852     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-006-9021-x     Document Type: Article

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