Dominance of Epiphytic Filamentous Thiothrix spp. on an Aquatic Macrophyte in a Hydrothermal Vent Flume in Sedge Bay, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 528-538

  Konkol, Nick R ^a,d   Bruckner, James C ^a,e   Aguilar, Carmen ^b   Lovalvo, David ^c   Maki, James S ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c Eastern Oceanics Inc   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; RNA 16S; SULFUR; WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; THIOTHRIX; UNITED STATES;

ANGIOSPERMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; THIOTHRIX; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WYOMING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THIOTHRIX;

EID: 77958062314     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9656-z     Document Type: Article

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