[FeFe] hydrogenase genetic diversity provides insight into molecular adaptation in a saline microbial mat community

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4620-4623

  Boyd, Eric S ^a   Spear, John R ^b   Peters, John W ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

[FEFE]HYDROGENASE; DEGENERATE PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC DIVERSITY; ME-XICO; MICROBIAL MATS; MOLECULAR ADAPTATIONS;

HYDROGENASE;

ADAPTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POND;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEXICO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGENASE; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; GUERRERO NEGRO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67649621650     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00582-09     Document Type: Article

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