Isolation and distribution of a novel iron-oxidizing crenarchaeon from acidic geothermal springs in Yellowstone National Park

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 942-949

  Kozubal, M ^a   Macur, R E ^a   Korf, S ^a   Taylor, W P ^a   Ackerman, G G ^a   Nagy, A ^a   Inskeep, W P ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; OXIDATION;

ACIDIC GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; CHEMOLITHOTROPHY; GENE SEQUENCES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL RNA; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; RNA 16S;

GENE EXPRESSION; IRON OXIDE; ISOLATED POPULATION; MICROBIAL MAT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPRING WATER;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; METALLOSPHAERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SULFOLOBALES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SULFATES; SULFOLOBALES; TEMPERATURE; WYOMING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; METALLOSPHAERA; SULFOLOBALES; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 39649108861     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01200-07     Document Type: Article

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