Nonmagnetotactic multicellular prokaryotes from low-saline, nonmarine aquatic environments and their unusual negative phototactic behavior

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3220-3227

  Lefèvre, Christopher T ^a   Abreu, Fernanda ^b   Lins, Ulysses ^b   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; DNA EXTRACTION; GREIGITES; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MAGNETIC MINERALS; MAGNETOSOMES; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; MAGNETOTACTIC MULTICELLULAR PROKARYOTES; NON-MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; SINGLE SPECIES; WHITE LIGHT;

BACTERIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

GENES;

RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOMINERALIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOTAXIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PROKARYOTE; SPRING WATER;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEVADA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77952268710     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00408-10     Document Type: Article

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