Gene expression in the deep biosphere

Nature

Volumn 499, Issue 7457, 2013, Pages 205-208

  Orsi, William D ^a   Edgcomb, Virginia P ^a   Christman, Glenn D ^b   Biddle, Jennifer F ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SULFITE REDUCTASE;

ABUNDANCE; AMINO ACID; ANOXIC SEDIMENT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LIPID;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOMASS; CELL DIVISION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA REPAIR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES; TRANSCRIPTOME; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

PERU;

EID: 84880514807     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12230     Document Type: Article

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