Microbial diversity in the deep-subsurface hydrothermal aquifer feeding the giant gypsum crystal-bearing Naica Mine, Mexico

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Ragon, Marie ^a   Van Driessche, Alexander E S ^b   García Ruíz, Juan M ^b   Moreira, David ^a   López García, Purificación ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b LABORATORIO DE ESTUDIOS CRISTALOGRÁFICOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerobic ammonium oxidation; Candidate division Op3; Gc content; Hydrothermal; Thaumarchaeota; Therm ophile; Thermoplasmatales

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; OTUS; PROKARYOTA; THERMOPLASMATALES;

EID: 84875889563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00037     Document Type: Article

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