Short-term microbial and physico-chemical variability in low-temperature hydrothermal fluids near 5°S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2526-2541

  Perner, Mirjam ^a   Bach, Wolfgang ^b   Hentscher, Michael ^b   Koschinsky, Andrea ^c   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^d   Streit, Wolfgang R ^a   Strauss, Harald ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMISTRY; COLD; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; TIME;

ARCHAEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAWATER; SELECTION BIAS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 70349661581     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01978.x     Document Type: Article

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