Survey of Archaeal Diversity Reveals an Abundance of Halophilic Archaea in a Low-Salt, Sulfide- and Sulfur-Rich Spring

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2230-2239

  Elshahed, Mostafa S ^a   Najar, Fares Z ^a   Roe, Bruce A ^a   Oren, Aharon ^b   Dewers, Thomas A ^a   Krumholz, Lee R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DIVERSITY; CLONE LIBRARIES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTS; SULFIDE MINERALS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

HYDROCARBON; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

HALOPHYTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPRING WATER; SULFIDE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVAPORATION; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; METHANOSARCINA; MICROBIAL MAT; MOISTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; REDUCTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SALINITY; SOIL; SPECIES HABITAT; THERMAL SPRING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; FRESH WATER; HALOBACTERIALES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OKLAHOMA; PHYLOGENY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFIDES; SULFUR; VARIATION (GENETICS);

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [OKLAHOMA (STT)]; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOFERAX; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSARCINA; METHANOSARCINALES;

EID: 8444239817     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2230-2239.2004     Document Type: Review

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