Lipid biomarkers, pigments and cyanobacterial diversity of microbial mats across intertidal flats of the arid coast of the Arabian Gulf (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 449-462

  Abed, Raeid M M ^b,c   Kohls, Katharina ^c   Schoon, Raphaela ^c   Scherf, Ann Kathrin ^a   Schacht, Marion ^a   Palinska, Katarzyna A ^a   Al Hassani, Huda ^d   Hamza, Waleed ^d   Rullkötter, Jürgen ^a   Golubic, Stjepko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabian Gulf; Arid climate; Cyanobacterial mats; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE); Extreme environment; Scytonemin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLOROPHYLL A; FATTY ACID; LIPID; PIGMENT; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

BIOMARKER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; FATTY ACID; GEL; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PIGMENT; SALINITY; TIDAL FLAT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYNGBYA AESTUARII; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEASHORE; TEMPERATURE; TIDE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIA; DEHYDRATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; INDOLES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOLS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEAWATER; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF;

CYANOBACTERIA; LYNGBYA AESTUARII; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES;

EID: 49249086892     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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