The phylogenetic diversity of Thermus and Meiothermus from microbial mats of an Australian subsurface aquifer runoff channel

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-73

  Spanevello, Mark D ^a   Patel, Bharat K C ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity; Great Artesian Basin; Meiothermus; Microbial mats; Phylogeny; Pigment; Thermus

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RUNOFF;

GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL MAT; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; MEIOTHERMUS; MEIOTHERMUS CERBERUS; MEIOTHERMUS RUBER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMUS; THERMUS IGNITERRAE; THERMUS OSHIMA; THERMUS SCOTODUCTUS;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN;

CERBERUS; MEIOTHERMUS; MEIOTHERMUS RUBER; THERMUS; THERMUS IGNITERRAE; THERMUS SCOTODUCTUS;

EID: 4644372788     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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