Community ecology of hot spring cyanobacterial mats: Predominant populations and their functional potential

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1262-1278

  Klatt, Christian G ^a   Wood, Jason M ^a   Rusch, Douglas B ^b   Bateson, Mary M ^a   Hamamura, Natsuko ^a   Heidelberg, John F ^c   Grossman, Arthur R ^d   Bhaya, Devaki ^d   Cohan, Frederick M ^e   Kühl, Michael ^f,g   Bryant, Donald A ^a,h   Ward, David M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroflexi; community structure and function; cyanobacteria; metagenomics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EFFLUENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOMICS; INVERTEBRATE; MUSHROOM; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATEDNESS; THERMAL SPRING;

ARTICLE; CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THERMAL SPRING; UNITED STATES;

CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOT SPRINGS; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHLOROBIALES; CHLOROFLEXALES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; OCTOPUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 79960560749     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.73     Document Type: Article

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