Diversity of active chemolithoautotrophic prokaryotes in the sulfidic zone of a Black Sea pelagic redoxcline as determined by rRNA-based stable isotope probing

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-41

  Glaubitz, Sabine ^a   Labrenz, Matthias ^a   Jost, Günter ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black Sea; chemolithoautotrophy; GSO; redoxcline; Sulfurimonas

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON DIOXIDE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FIXATION; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CLINE; DENITRIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXIDATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM; PROBE; PROKARYOTE; REDOX CONDITIONS; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BLACK SEA; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BIODIVERSITY; BLACK SEA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BLACK SEA;

EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SULFURIMONAS;

EID: 77956548284     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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