Amino acid signatures of salinity on an environmental scale with a focus on the Dead Sea

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2613-2623

  Rhodes, Matthew E ^a   Fitz Gibbon, Sorel T ^b   Oren, Aharon ^c   House, Christopher H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; SEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBACTERIA; THERMOTOGA;

EID: 77956238024     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02232.x     Document Type: Article

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