Molecular characterization of bacteria associated with the trophosome and the tube of Lamellibrachia sp., a siboglinid annelid from cold seeps in the eastern Mediterranean

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 395-409

  Duperron, Sébastien ^a,b   De Beer, Dirk ^c   Zbinden, Magali ^a,b   Boetius, Antje ^c,d   Schipani, Vanessa ^a,b   Kahil, Nacera ^a,b   Gaill, Françoise ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold seep; Eastern Mediterranean; Lamellibrachia; Sulfide oxidizing bacteria; Symbiosis; Tubeworm

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANNELID; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COLD SEEP; DEEP SEA; DOMINANCE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; METABOLISM; METHANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUD VOLCANO; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SULFIDE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TUBE DWELLER;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIVALVE; COLD SEEP SPECIES; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SYMBIONT; VOLCANO;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; SYMBIOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

ANNELIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LAMELLIBRACHIA; LAMELLIBRACHIA SP.; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; SIBOGLINIDAE; TUBICOLAE;

EID: 68249091156     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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