Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8806-8811

  Baker, Brett J ^a   Comolli, Luis R ^b   Dick, Gregory J ^a,e   Hauser, Loren J ^c   Hyatt, Doug ^c   Dill, Brian D ^c   Land, Miriam L ^c   VerBerkmoes, Nathan C ^c   Hettich, Robert L ^c   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Archaeal Richmond Mine acidophilic nanoorganisms; Metagenomics; Microbial ecology; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL CYCLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CRENARCHAEOTA; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RNA TRANSLATION;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; THERMOPLASMATALES;

EID: 77952691194     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914470107     Document Type: Article

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