Comparative genomics in acid mine drainage biofilm communities reveals metabolic and structural differentiation of co-occurring archaea

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yelton, Alexis P ^a,e   Comolli, Luis R ^b   Justice, Nicholas B ^c   Castelle, Cindy ^b   Denef, Vincent J ^d,f   Thomas, Brian C ^d   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Comparative genomics; Ferroplasma; Iron oxidation; Metagenomics; Thermoplasmatales

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; RNA 16S; VALINE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CLADISTICS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERROPLASMA ACIDARMANUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; IRON METABOLISM; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AEROBIOSIS; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACIDS; BIOFILMS; CELL WALL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERMENTATION; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; GLYOXYLATES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; METALS; MINING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; THERMOPLASMALES; TREHALOSE;

ARCHAEA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FERROPLASMA; THERMOPLASMATALES;

EID: 84880182120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-485     Document Type: Article

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