Microbial communities in iron-silica-rich microbial mats at deep-sea hydrothermal fields of the Southern Mariana Trough

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2094-2111

  Kato, Shingo ^a   Kobayashi, Chiyori ^a   Kakegawa, Takeshi ^b   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; ECOSYSTEM; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 68249161022     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01930.x     Document Type: Article

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