Dissecting the deep biosphere: Retrieving authentic microbial communities from packer-isolated deep crystalline bedrock fracture zones

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 324-337

  Purkamo, Lotta ^a   Bomberg, Malin ^a   Nyyssönen, Mari ^a   Kukkonen, Ilmo ^b   Ahonen, Lasse ^b   Kietäväinen, Riikka ^b   Itävaara, Merja ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Archaea; Deep terrestrial fracture zones; Microbial communities; Packer method; Sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

BEDROCK; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; FLUSHING; FRACTURE ZONE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROKARYOTE; SULFATE;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DEEP TERRESTRIAL FRACTURE ZONES; GENETICS; HYDROLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PACKER METHOD; PHYLOGENY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ARCHAEA; DEEP TERRESTRIAL FRACTURE ZONES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PACKER METHOD; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

FINLAND;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84880134305     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12126     Document Type: Article

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