Prokaryotic community structure and diversity in the sediments of an active submarine mud volcano (Kazan mud volcano, East Mediterranean Sea)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 429-444

  Pachiadaki, Maria G ^a,b   Lykousis, Vasilios ^b   Stefanou, Euripides G ^a   Kormas, Konstantinos A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Archaea; Bacteria; Diversity; Kazan marine mud volcano

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; METHANE; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; CLONE; DIVERSITY INDEX; GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUD VOLCANO; OXIDATION; RNA; SEAFLOOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBMARINE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHANE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

KAZAN MUD VOLCANO; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77951961345     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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