Two-dimensional mapping of photopigment distribution and activity of Chloroflexus-like bacteria in a hypersaline microbial mat

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 434-448

  Bachar, Ami ^b   Polerecky, Lubos ^b   Fischer, Jan P ^b   Vamvakopoulos, Kyriakos ^b   De Beer, Dirk ^b   Jonkers, Henk M ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloroflexaceae; Hyperspectral imaging; Microbial mat; Photopigments

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PIGMENT; RNA 16S; SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; IMAGING METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PIGMENT; RESPIRATION; RNA; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROFLEXACEAE; CHLOROFLEXUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROBIAL MAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SULFATES; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CANDIDATUS CHLOROTHRIX; CHLOROFLEXACEAE; CHLOROFLEXUS; CYANOBACTERIA; OSCILLOCHLORIS; ROSEIFLEXUS;

EID: 49249138173     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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