Community structure and function of high-temperature chlorophototrophic microbial mats inhabiting diverse geothermal environments

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Klatt, Christian G ^a   Inskeep, William P ^a   Herrgard, Markus J ^b   Jay, Zackary J ^a   Rusch, Douglas B ^c   Tringe, Susannah G ^d   Parenteau, M Niki ^e,f   Ward, David M ^a   Boomer, Sarah M ^g   Bryant, Donald A ^a,h   Miller, Scott R ⁱ  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Technical University of Denmark   (Denmark)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Microbial interactions; Microbial mats; Phototrophic bacteria; Thermophilic bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; HYDRACRYLIC ACID; IRON; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHOTOTROPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL MAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OXIDATION KINETICS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHOTOTROPHY; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; YELLOWSTONE GEOTHERMAL ECOSYSTEM;

BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROBIALES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CYANOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FISCHERELLA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; ROSEIFLEXUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THERMOCHROMATIUM;

EID: 84884224944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00106     Document Type: Article

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