Dispersal of thermophilic Desulfotomaculum endospores into Baltic Sea sediments over thousands of years

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-84

  De Rezende, Júlia Rosa ^a   Kjeldsen, Kasper Urup ^a   Hubert, Casey R J ^b   Finster, Kai ^a   Loy, Alexander ^c   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

biogeography; dispersal; endospores; population half life; sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTINCTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; DENMARK; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; DENMARK; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALF-LIFE; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

AARHUS BAY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; DENMARK; MIDTJYLLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOTOMACULUM;

EID: 84871372729     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.83     Document Type: Article

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