Extraordinary phylogenetic diversity and metabolic versatility in aquifer sediment

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Castelle, Cindy J ^a   Hug, Laura A ^a   Wrighton, Kelly C ^a   Thomas, Brian C ^a   Williams, Kenneth H ^b   Wu, Dongying ^c   Tringe, Susannah G ^b,d   Singer, Steven W ^b   Eisen, Jonathan A ^c,e   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ELECTRON TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEIN; FERREDOXIN; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 16S; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AQUIFER; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DOMINANCE; GENOME; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; RESPIRATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; WATER TABLE;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUIFER; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GLUCONEOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEDIMENT; SPIROCHETE; THAUMARCHAEOTA; WATER TABLE;

COLORADO; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84883287892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3120     Document Type: Article

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