Structural and Functional Insights from the Metagenome of an Acidic Hot Spring Microbial Planktonic Community in the Colombian Andes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Jiménez, Diego Javier ^a,e   Andreote, Fernando Dini ^c   Chaves, Diego ^a   Montaña, José Salvador ^a,b   Osorio Forero, Cesar ^a,d   Junca, Howard ^a,d   Zambrano, María Mercedes ^a,d   Baena, Sandra ^a,b  

^a Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments ^*  (Colombia)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Genomics and Evolution of Communities of Environmental Microorganisms   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLSULFATE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; RNA 16S; SULFATE; SULFITE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

16S RRNA GENE; ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDIPHILIUM CRYPTUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTITUDE; APRA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLOROPLAST; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSDN GENE; CYSNC GENE; DNA REPAIR; ECOSYSTEM; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NARGHI GENE; NIRS GENE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NORBCDQ GENE; NOSZ GENE; PLANKTON; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; TAXONOMY; THERMAL SPRING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROALGA; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ACIDIPHILIUM CRYPTUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ALGAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIA; CHLOROPLASTS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOT SPRINGS; METAGENOME; MICROALGAE; NITROGEN; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR;

EID: 84871293227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052069     Document Type: Article

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