Ecology and microbial structures of archaeal/bacterial strings-of-pearls communities and archaeal relatives thriving in cold sulfidic springs

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Rudolph, Christian ^a   Moissl, Christine ^a   Henneberger, Ruth ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Proteobacteria; Archaea; Psychrophilic; SM1 euryarchaeon; String of pearls; Sulfidic spring

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SPRING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GERMANY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TURKEY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WETLANDS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THIOTHRIX;

EID: 4644260588     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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