Microbial diversity of extant stromatolites in the hypersaline marine environment of Shark Bay, Australia

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1096-1101

  Burns, Brendan P ^a   Goh, Falicia ^a   Allen, Michelle ^a,b   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT;

ARCHAEA; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHONDRICHTHYES; CRENARCHAEOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE; EURYARCHAEOTA; LEPTOLYNGBYA; METHANOSARCINALES; MICROCOLEUS; NOSTOC; PLANCTOMYCETES; PLECTONEMA; PLEUROCAPSA; POSIBACTERIA; PROCHLORON; PROTEOBACTERIA; SYMPLOCA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; XENOCOCCUS;

EID: 4644335422     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00651.x     Document Type: Article

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