Microbial communities and geochemical dynamics in an extremely acidic, metal-rich stream at an abandoned sulfide mine (Huelva, Spain) underpinned by two functional primary production systems

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1761-1771

  Rowe, Owen F ^a   Sánchez España, Javier ^b   Hallberg, Kevin B ^a   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 18S; SULFIDE;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIVER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPAIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ALGAE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ALGAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EURYARCHAEOTA;

EID: 34250196460     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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