Contrasting relationships between biogeochemistry and prokaryotic diversity depth profiles along an estuarine sediment gradient

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 143-157

  O'Sullivan, Louise A ^a,b   Sass, Andrea M ^a,b   Webster, Gordon ^a,b   Fry, John C ^a   Parkes, R John ^b   Weightman, Andrew J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaerobic methanotroph; Colne; DGGE; Methanogenesis; Sediment geochemistry; Sulphate reduction

Indexed keywords

METHANE; SEA WATER; SULFATE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PROKARYOTE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EURYARCHAEOTA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; EURYARCHAEOTA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEAWATER; SULFATES;

COLNE ESTUARY; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOBULBACEAE; DESULFOBULBUS; METHANOCOCCOIDES; METHANOMICROBIALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84879419045     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12106     Document Type: Article

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