Life without light: Microbial diversity and evidence of sulfur- and ammonium-based chemolithotrophy in Movile Cave

ISME Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1093-1104

  Chen, Yin ^a   Wu, Liqin ^a,b   Boden, Rich ^a   Hillebrand, Alexandra ^c   Kumaresan, Deepak ^a   Moussard, Hélène ^a   Baciu, Mihai ^d   Lu, Yahai ^b   Murrell, J Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^d Group of Underwater and Speleological Exploration   (Romania)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; DNA stable isotope probing; Movile Cave; Sulfur oxidizing bacteria

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFUR;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOPHILUS; METHYLOTENERA; METHYLOVORUS; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSPIRA; RHODOBACTERALES; THIOBACILLUS; VERRUCOMICROBIA; XANTHOMONADALES;

EID: 70349446265     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.57     Document Type: Article

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