Extending the sub-sea-floor biosphere

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5879, 2008, Pages 1046-

  Roussel, Erwan G ^a   Bonavita, Marie Anne Cambon ^a   Querellou, Joël ^a   Cragg, Barry A ^b   Webster, Gordon ^b   Prieur, Daniel ^a   Parkes, R John ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PROKARYOTE; SEAFLOOR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PYROCOCCUS; SEA; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 44449089591     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154545     Document Type: Article

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8. We thank members of the Leg 210 cruise, especially J. C. Sibuet, for obtaining samples and K. E. Louden for helpful discussions and providing the thermal gradient data. This study used data provided by the ODP (www-odp.tamu.edu) and was partly funded from Natural Environment Research Council, UK. GenBank accession numbers are AM418589 to AM418604.