On the relationship between methane production and oxidation by anaerobic methanotrophic communities from cold seeps of the Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1108-1117

  Orcutt, Beth ^a,d   Samarkin, Vladimir ^a   Boetius, Antje ^b,c   Joye, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; METHANE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SULFATE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; COLD; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METHANE; MEXICO; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 41849084119     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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