Metagenomic evidence for sulfur lithotrophy by epsilonproteobacteria as the major energy source for primary productivity in a sub-aerial arctic glacial deposit, borup fiord pass

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Wright, Katherine E ^a   Williamson, Charles ^b   Grasby, Stephen E ^c   Spear, John R ^b   Templeton, Alexis S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Epsilonproteobacteria; Free energy; Lithotrophy; Metagenome; Photosynthesis; Sulfur; Sulfurovum

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DISSIMILATORY POLYSULPHIDE REDUCTASE; FERROZINE; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE; METHYLENE BLUE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; SULFIDE; SULFIDE QUINONE REDUCTASE; SULFIDEDE HYDROGENASE; SULFITE OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFUR; SULFUR OXYGENASE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BORUP FIORD PASS; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIER; GRAVIMETRY; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SAMPLING; SULFUR LITHOTROPHY; SULFURICURVUM; SULFUROVUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; SULFURICURVUM; SULFUROVUM;

EID: 84884223755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00063     Document Type: Article

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