Anoxic carbon flux in photosynthetic microbial mats as revealed by metatranscriptomics

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 817-829

  Burow, Luke C ^a,b   Woebken, Dagmar ^a,b,f   Marshall, Ian P G ^a   Lindquist, Erika A ^c   Bebout, Brad M ^b   Prufert Bebout, Leslie ^b   Hoehler, Tori M ^b   Tringe, Susannah G ^c   Pett Ridge, Jennifer ^d   Weber, Peter K ^d   Spormann, Alfred M ^a   Singer, Steven W ^e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

metatranscriptomics; NanoSIMS; anoxic carbon flux; fermentation; glycogen

Indexed keywords

ALLYL COMPOUND; METHYLALLYL TRISULFIDE; SULFIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBON FLUX; CATABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL MAT; ORGANIC ACID; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BAY; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESTUARY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

ALLYL COMPOUNDS; BAYS; CALIFORNIA; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIA; ESTUARIES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; ELKHORN SLOUGH; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS;

EID: 84875363882     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.150     Document Type: Article

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