Hidden in plain sight: Discovery of sheath-forming, iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria at Loihi Seamount, Hawaii, USA

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-127

  Fleming, Emily J ^a   Davis, Richard E ^b   Mcallister, Sean M ^c,d   Chan, Clara S ^d   Moyer, Craig L ^c   Tebo, Bradley M ^b   Emerson, David ^a  

^a BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Deep sea sampling; Iron oxidation; Leptothrix ochracea; Loihi Seamount; Marine iron mats; Zetaproteobacteria FISH probes

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; IRON; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; IRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; PROBE; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOTHRIX; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE; UNITED STATES;

FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GENES, RRNA; HAWAII; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IRON; LEPTOTHRIX; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAWATER;

LOIHI SEAMOUNT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; LEPTOTHRIX; LEPTOTHRIX OCHRACEA; PROTEOBACTERIA; STREPTOPUS;

EID: 84879417994     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12104     Document Type: Article

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