Diversity and function of Chloroflexus-like bacteria in a hypersaline microbial mat: Phylogenetic characterization and impact on aerobic respiration

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3975-3983

  Bachar, Ami ^a   Omoregie, Enoma ^a   De Wit, Rutger ^b   Jonkers, Henk M ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; INFRARED ABSORPTION; METABOLISM; MICROSENSORS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; OXYGEN DYNAMICS; RESPIRATION; RRNA;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; GAMMA CAROTENE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; RESPIRATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CHLOROFLEXACEAE; CHLOROFLEXUS; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROBIAL MAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROFLEXUS; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

CHLOROFLEXACEAE; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS;

EID: 34250868973     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02532-06     Document Type: Article

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