Primary producing prokaryotic communities of brine, interface and seawater above the halocline of deep anoxic lake L'Atalante, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

ISME Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 743-755

  Yakimov, Michail M ^a   La Cono, Violetta ^a   Denaro, Renata ^a   D'Auria, Giuseppe ^a   Decembrini, Franco ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^b   Golyshin, Peter N ^b,c   Giuliano, Laura ^a,d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CIESM   (Monaco)

Author keywords

Bicarbonate assimilation activity; Dark deep sea chemoautotrophy; Deep sea hypersaline anoxic lakes; Marine Crenarchaeota

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BRINE; INORGANIC SALT; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRENARCHAEOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SALINITY; SALTS; SEAWATER; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36849028081     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2007.83     Document Type: Article

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