Three distinct clades of cultured heterocystous cyanobacteria constitute the dominant N2-fixing members of biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau, USA

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-97

  Yeager, Chris M ^a   Kornosky, Jennifer L ^a   Morgan, Rachael E ^a   Cain, Elizabeth C ^a   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^b   Housman, David C ^c   Belnap, Jayne ^c   Kuske, Cheryl R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological soil crust; Cyanobacteria; nifH; Nitrogen fixation; Nostoc; Scytonema

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGAL MAT; CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; SOIL CRUST; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC COMMUNE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SCYTONEMA HYALINUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPIRIRESTIS; TOLYPOTHRIX; UNITED STATES;

COLORADO; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NOSTOC; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC COMMUNE; NOSTOCALES; SCYTONEMA; SCYTONEMA HYALINUM; SPIRIRESTIS; TOLYPOTHRIX;

EID: 33947263194     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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