Prokaryotic Populations in Arsenic-Rich Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Sediments of Ambitle Island, Papua New Guinea

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Meyer Dombard, D R ^a   Price, R E ^b   Pichler, T ^c   Amend, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

arsenic biogeochemistry; hydrothermal vents; iron biogeochemistry; sediment microbiology

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DOMINANCE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IRON; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROKARYOTE; RNA; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AMBITLE ISLAND; BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO; FENI ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; TUTUM BAY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; KORARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80051942355     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2010.520073     Document Type: Article

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