Unveiling microbial life in the new deep-sea hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part II: A metagenomic study

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 268-281

  Ferrer, Manuel ^a   Werner, Johannes ^b   Chernikova, Tatyana N ^c   Bargiela, Rafael ^a   Fernández, Lucía ^a   La Cono, Violetta ^d   Waldmann, Jost ^b   Teeling, Hanno ^b   Golyshina, Olga V ^c   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^b,e   Yakimov, Michail M ^d   Golyshin, Peter N ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE CATÁLISIS Y PETROLEOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEA WATER; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84855263243     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02634.x     Document Type: Article

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