Nanoarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences are widely dispersed in hyperthermophilic and mesophilic halophilic environments

Extremophiles

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 651-656

  Casanueva, Ana ^a   Galada, Ncebakazi ^a   Baker, Gillian C ^a   Grant, William D ^b   Heaphy, Shaun ^b   Jones, Brian ^c   Yanhe, Ma ^d   Ventosa, Antonio ^e   Blamey, Jenny ^f   Cowan, Don A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Genencor International   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^f Fundacion Biodiversitas Santiago   (Chile)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Hypersaline; Hyperthermophilic; Nanoarchaeaota; Phylogeny; Primer

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL RNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NANOARCHAEOTA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOARCHAEOTA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; IGNICOCCUS; NANOARCHAEOTA; NANOARCHAEUM EQUITANS;

EID: 50649122735     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-008-0170-x     Document Type: Article

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