Spatial patterns of bacterial and archaeal communities along the Romanche Fracture Zone (tropical Atlantic)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 537-552

  Lekunberri, Itziar ^a   Sintes, Eva ^a   de Corte, Daniele ^a   Yokokawa, Taichi ^b   Herndl, Gerhard J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization; Deep sea; Prokaryotic communities; Romanche Fracture Zone; Thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEEP SEA; FRACTURE ZONE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; ORGANIC MATTER; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIUM; CATALYZED REPORTER DEPOSITION-FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DEEP SEA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC COMMUNITIES; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ROMANCHE FRACTURE ZONE; THAUMARCHAEOTA; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BACTERIA; CATALYZED REPORTER DEPOSITION-FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; DEEP SEA; PROKARYOTIC COMMUNITIES; ROMANCHE FRACTURE ZONE; THAUMARCHAEOTA;

ARCHAEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEAWATER; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

ALTEROMONAS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84881541457     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12142     Document Type: Article

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