Endospore abundance, microbial growth and necromass turnover in deep sub-seafloor sediment

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7392, 2012, Pages 101-104

  Lomstein, Bente Aa ^a   Langerhuus, Alice T ^a   D'Hondt, Steven ^b   Jørgensen, Bo B ^a   Spivack, Arthur J ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; AMINO ACID; DNA; DYE; MURAMIC ACID; ORGANIC CARBON; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABUNDANCE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOSPHERE; CELL ORGANELLE; DRILLING; ENERGY FLUX; GENETIC MARKER; GROWTH RATE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; SEAFLOOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPORE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BIOMASS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NECROMASS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIZATION; SEA; SEDIMENT; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ALTITUDE; AMINO ACIDS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CELL WALL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MURAMIC ACIDS; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERU; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PICOLINIC ACIDS; SEAWATER; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859468966     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10905     Document Type: Article

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