Revealing the uncultivated majority: Combining DNA stable-isotope probing, multiple displacement amplification and metagenomic analyses of uncultivated Methylocystis in acidic peatlands

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2609-2622

  Chen, Yin ^a   Dumont, Marc G ^a,e   Neufeld, Josh D ^a,f   Bodrossy, Levente ^b   Stralis Pavese, Nancy ^b   McNamara, Niall P ^c   Ostle, Nick ^c   Briones, Maria J I ^d   Murrell, J Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE (ACCEPTOR); BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; OXYGENASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLOCYSTACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENGLAND; GENOMIC LIBRARY; ISOTOPE LABELING; METHYLOCYSTACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOCYSTIS;

EID: 51649084234     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01683.x     Document Type: Article

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