Sulfur cycling and methanogenesis primarily drive microbial colonization of the highly sulfidic Urania deep hypersaline basin

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

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 9151-9156

  Borin, Sara ^a   Brusetti, Lorenzo ^a   Mapelli, Francesca ^a   D'Auria, Giuseppe ^b   Brusa, Tullio ^a   Marzorati, Massimo ^a   Rizzi, Aurora ^a   Yakimov, Michail ^c   Marty, Danielle ^d   De Lange, Gert J ^e   Van Der Wielen, Paul ^f   Bolhuis, Henk ^g   McGenity, Terry J ^h   Polymenakou, Paraskevi N ⁱ   Malinverno, Elisa ^j   Giuliano, Laura ^c   Corselli, Cesare ^j   Daffonchio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^g NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Deep anoxic hypersaline lake; Element cycling; Geosphere biosphere interaction; Mediterranean Sea; Microbial diversity

Indexed keywords

METHANE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFUR CYCLE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXYGEN; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SULFUR; WATER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; URANIA;

EID: 67249101298     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811984106     Document Type: Article

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