Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic Cold Seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3237-3254

  Lösekann, Tina ^a,d   Robador, Alberto ^a   Niemann, Helge ^a,b,e   Knittel, Katrin ^a   Boetius, Antje ^a,b,c   Dubilier, Nicole ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S; SEA WATER; SULFUR;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HELMINTHS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OLIGOBRACHIA HAAKONMOSBIENSIS; PERVIATA; SCLEROLINUM CONTORTUM; SIBOGLINIDAE; SULFUR-OXIDIZING SYMBIONTS; TUBICOLAE; VESTIMENTIFERA;

EID: 52049109577     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01712.x     Document Type: Article

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