Microbial diversity in Tunisian geothermal springs as detected by molecular and culture-based approaches

Extremophiles

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 501-514

  Sayeh, Raja ^a,b   Birrien, Jean Louis ^a   Alain, Karine ^a   Barbier, Georges ^c   Hamdi, Mokhtar ^b   Prieur, Daniel ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BREST   (France)

Author keywords

Archaea; Biodiversity; Ecology; Phylogeny; Physiology of thermophiles; Systematics; Thermophile ecology

Indexed keywords

AQUIFICAE; AQUIFICAE (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CRENARCHAEOTA; DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOTOGAE; THERMOTOGAE (CLASS); THERMUS;

EID: 78149500217     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-010-0327-2     Document Type: Article

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