Isolates of Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus from decaying wood compost display genetic and phenotypic microdiversity

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-487

  Verbeke, Tobin J ^a   Dumonceaux, Tim J ^b   Wushke, Scott ^a   Cicek, Nazim ^a   Levin, David B ^a   Sparling, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Chaperonin 60; Ecotypes; Niche specialization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFUEL; COMPOST; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; NICHE; NICHE OVERLAP; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; THERMOANAEROBACTER; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERMENTATION; METABOLOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMOANAEROBACTER; WOOD;

THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTER BROCKII; THERMOANAEROBACTER SP.; THERMOANAEROBACTER THERMOHYDROSULFURICUS; THERMOANAEROBACTER WIEGELII;

EID: 81155148824     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01181.x     Document Type: Article

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