In situ production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in a great basin hot spring (USA)

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Chuanlun L ^a,b   Wang, Jinxiang ^a,b   Dodsworth, Jeremy A ^c   Williams, Amanda J ^c   Zhu, Chun ^d   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^d   Zheng, Fengfeng ^b   Hedlund, Brian P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Tongji University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branched GDGTs; Great basin; Hot spring; Thermophilic bacteria

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROSPRAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; TEMPERATURE;

BACTEROIDETES; DICTYOGLOMI;

EID: 84884267635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00181     Document Type: Article

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