Community structure of Archaea in the water column above gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 363-369

  Liu, Bin ^a,b   Ye, Guangbin ^c   Wang, Fengpin ^c   Bell, Ryan ^d   Noakes, John ^a   Short, Tim ^d   Zhang, Chuanlun L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene clone libraries; Archaea; GDGTs; Gulf of Mexico; Water column

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GAS HYDRATE; MICROORGANISM; PHYLOGENETICS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

EID: 70349816752     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450902929290     Document Type: Article

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