A Comprehensive Census of Microbial Diversity in Hot Springs of Tengchong, Yunnan Province China Using 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hou, Weiguo ^a   Wang, Shang ^a   Dong, Hailiang ^a,b   Jiang, Hongchen ^a   Briggs, Brandon R ^b   Peacock, Joseph P ^c   Huang, Qiuyuan ^b   Huang, Liuqin ^a   Wu, Geng ^a   Zhi, Xiaoyang ^d   Li, Wenjun ^d   Dodsworth, Jeremy A ^c   Hedlund, Brian P ^c   Zhang, Chuanlun ^e,f   Hartnett, Hilairy E ^g   Dijkstra, Paul ^h   Hungate, Bruce A ^h  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Tongji University   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFUR;

16S RRNA GENE; ALKALINITY; AQUIFICAE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFUROCOCCALES; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROGENOBACTER; HYDROGENOBACULUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SULFOLOBALES; THERMAL SPRING; THERMOPROTEALES; WATER SAMPLING;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOT SPRINGS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AQUIFICAE; AQUIFICAE (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; DESULFUROCOCCALES; HYDROGENOBACTER; HYDROGENOBACULUM; OTUS; SULFOLOBALES; THERMOPROTEALES;

EID: 84872223336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053350     Document Type: Article

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