Mesophilic and themophilic conditions select for unique but highly parallel microbial communities to perform carboxylate platform biomass conversion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Hollister, Emily B ^a,b,e   Forrest, Andrea K ^c   Wilkinson, Heather H ^a   Ebbole, Daniel J ^a   Tringe, Susannah G ^d   Malfatti, Stephanie A ^d   Holtzapple, Mark T ^c   Gentry, Terry J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CELLOBIOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; HEXANOIC ACID; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PROPIONIC ACID; VALERIC ACID; XYLOSE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; BIOMASS FERMENTATION; CLOSTRIDIA; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INOCULATION; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MESOPHILIC TEMPERATURE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOANAEROBACTERIUM; THERMOPHILE; THERMOPHILIC TEMPERATURE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FERMENTATION; GENES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84862689324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039689     Document Type: Article

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