High genetic similarity between two geographically distinct strains of the sulfur-oxidizing symbiont 'Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli'

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-241

  Rinke, Christian ^a,b   Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a   Loy, Alexander ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a   Bright, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoautotrophic; Ciliate; Sulfide; Sulfite reductase; Symbiosis; Zoothamnium

Indexed keywords

ADENYLYLSULFATE REDUCTASE; CARBON; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SULFUR;

CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CILIATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZOOTHAMNIUM NIVEUM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; SULFUR-OXIDIZING SYMBIONTS; ZOOTHAMNIUM; ZOOTHAMNIUM NIVEUM;

EID: 58149116713     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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