Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure in field and cultured microbialites from the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Couradeau, Estelle ^a,b,c   Benzerara, Karim ^b   Moreira, David ^a   Gérard, Emmanuelle ^c   Kaźmierczak, Józef ^d   Tavera, Rosaluz ^e   López García, Purificación ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLATA; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DIATOM; FIRMICUTES; GREEN ALGA; MEXICO; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRAMENOPILE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BIOFILM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALKALI; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALKALIES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 83355176275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028767     Document Type: Article

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