Diversification of bacterial community composition along a temperature gradient at a thermal spring

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 374-381

  Craig Everroad, R ^a,b   Otaki, Hiroyo ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a   Haruta, Shin ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquificales; Biogeography; Photosynthetic bacteria; Sulfur oxidizing bacteria; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL SPRING;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOT SPRINGS; JAPAN; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AQUIFICALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; SULFURIHYDROGENIBIUM;

EID: 84871135947     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11350     Document Type: Article

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