Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: An increasingly extreme environment

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 399-407

  Bodaker, Idan ^a   Sharon, Itai ^a   Suzuki, Marcelino T ^b   Feingersch, Roi ^a   Shmoish, Michael ^a   Andreishcheva, Ekaterina ^c   Sogin, Mitchell L ^c   Rosenberg, Mira ^a   Maguire, Michael E ^d   Belkin, Shimshon ^e   Oren, Aharon ^e   Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Halobacterium; Halophiles; Haloquadratum; Hypersaline; Metagenomics; Salterns

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; CATION; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENOMICS; HALITE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MAGNESIUM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEA; BIODIVERSITY; CATIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

DEAD SEA;

ARCHAEA; HALOBACTERIUM;

EID: 77149143533     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.141     Document Type: Article

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