Variability in microbial communities in black smoker chimneys at the NW caldera vent field, brothers volcano, Kermadec arc

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 252-269

  Takai, Ken ^a   Nunoura, Takuro ^a   Horikoshi, Koki ^a   Shibuya, Takazo ^a   Nakamura, Kentaro ^a   Suzuki, Yohey ^b   Stott, Matthew ^c   Massoth, Gary J ^c   Christenson, B W ^c   deRonde, Cornel E J ^c   Butterfield, David A ^d   Ishibashi, Jun ichiro ^e   Lupton, John E ^f   Evans, L J ^f  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquificales; Brothers submarine volcano; Chemolithoautotroph; Community structure; Deep sea hydrothermal vents; Kermadec arc

Indexed keywords

BLACK SMOKER; CALDERA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SUBMARINE VOLCANO;

BROTHERS SEAMOUNT; KERMADEC ARC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AQUIFICALES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PERSEPHONELLA; SULFURIMONAS;

EID: 71149094725     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450903304949     Document Type: Article

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