Photoferrotrophs thrive in an Archean Ocean analogue

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 15938-15943

  Crowe, Sean A ^a   Jones, CarriAyne ^b   Katsev, Sergei ^a,c   Magen, Cedric ^a   O'Neill, Andrew H ^d   Sturm, Arne ^e   Canfield, Donald E ^b   Haffner, G Douglas ^d   Mucci, Alfonso ^a   Sundby, Bjørn ^a,f   Fowle, David A ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^f INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anoxygenic photosynthesis; Banded iron formation; Green sulfur bacteria; Iron oxidation; Lake matano

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL E; CHEMOCLINE; CHLOROPHYLL; PIGMENT; SULFIDE; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; CHLOROBI; IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHOTOFERROTROPH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNLIGHT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; CHLOROBI; ENVIRONMENT; INDONESIA; IRON; LIGHT; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFIDES; SUNLIGHT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CHLOROBI;

EID: 57349191522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805313105     Document Type: Article

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