Bacterial and archaeal phylogenetic diversity of a cold sulfur-rich spring on the shoreline of Lake Erie, Michigan

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5025-5036

  Chaudhary, Anita ^a,c   Haack, Sheridan Kidd ^b   Duris, Joseph W ^b   Marsh, Terence L ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; ALGAL MAT; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; CLONE LIBRARY; CRENARCHAEOTA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGIC PROCESS; LAKE ERIE; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; LOCAL AQUIFERS; MICHIGAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; PHYLOGENETIC AFFILIATION; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCIUM; CLONING; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES; METABOLISM; OCEAN HABITATS; SULFUR;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BICARBONATE; GROUND WATER; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ADAPTATION; ALGA; AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEW SPECIES; PH; SHORELINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFUR;

ACIDITY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLD; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; CYANOBACTERIUM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; LAKE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPRING; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICHIGAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SULFUR; WATER;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 67651244934     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00112-09     Document Type: Article

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