Prokaryotic community profiles at different operational stages of a Greek solar saltern

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 159, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 609-627

  Tsiamis, George ^a   Katsaveli, Katerina ^a   Ntougias, Spyridon ^b   Kyrpides, Nikos ^c   Andersen, Gary ^d   Piceno, Yvette ^d   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Halophiles; Hypersaline; MikroBioKosmos; PhyloChip; Prokaryotic diversity

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA MICROARRAY; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREECE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CRENARCHAEOTA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIACEAE; PROKARYOTA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 57049120142     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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