Quantitative fluorescence in Situ Hybridization analysis of microbial consortia from a biogenic gas field in Alaska's cook inlet basin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3599-3605

  Dawson, Katherine S ^a   Strapoć, Dariusz ^b   Huizinga, Brad ^c   Lidstrom, Ulrika ^d   Ashby, Matt ^d   Macalady, Jennifer L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dariusz Biogeochem   (United States)

^c ConocoPhillips ^*  (United States)

^d Taxon Biosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BIOGENIC GAS; COMMUNITY IS; COOK INLET; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAS FIELDS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; METHANE PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PYROSEQUENCING; REACTION NETWORK; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; WATER SAMPLES; WHOLE CELL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHANE; METHANOGENS; RNA;

GAS INDUSTRY;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE;

ACETATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FERMENTATION; FLUORESCENCE; GAS FIELD; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROKARYOTE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; OIL AND GAS FIELD; UNITED STATES;

ACETATES; ALASKA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CARBON DIOXIDE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METHANE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALASKA; COOK INLET; UNITED STATES;

ACETOBACTERIUM; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FIRMICUTES; FLEXIBACTER; METHANOLOBUS; METHANOSARCINA;

EID: 84861157625     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07122-11     Document Type: Article

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