Bacterial sulfur cycling shapes microbial communities in surface sediments of an ultramafic hydrothermal vent field

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2633-2648

  Schauer, Regina ^a   Røy, Hans ^a,b   Augustin, Nico ^c   Gennerich, Hans Hermann ^d   Peters, Marc ^e   Wenzhoefer, Frank ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a   Meyerdierks, Anke ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METHANE; RNA 16S; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEDIMENT;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES; SULFUR; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 80053648187     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02530.x     Document Type: Article

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