Microbial diversity at a hot, shallow-sea hydrothermal vent in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy)

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 380-390

  Maugeri, Teresa L ^a   Lentini, Valeria ^a   Gugliandolo, Concetta ^a   Cousin, Sylvie ^b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; PCR DGGE; Prokaryotic community; Shallow hydrothermal vents

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROKARYOTE; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINA [SICILY]; PANAREA; SICILY; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

ACIDOBACTERIACEAE; ARCHAEA; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOBACILLUS; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THIOMICROSPIRA;

EID: 77953557256     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450903451518     Document Type: Article

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