Microbial hotspots in anchialine blue holes: Initial discoveries from the Bahamas

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 677, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 149-156

  Gonzalez, Brett C ^a   Iliffe, Thomas M ^a   Macalady, Jennifer L ^b   Schaperdoth, Irene ^b   Kakuk, Brian ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bahamas Underground ^*  (Bahamas)

Author keywords

16S rRNA clone libraries; Anchialine caves; Bahamas; Blue holes; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CAVE; CLADISTICS; DOMINANCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROBIOLOGY; INSOLATION; KARST; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFICATION; SULFIDE;

BAHAMAS;

CHLOROBI; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 80555128720     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0932-9     Document Type: Article

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