The microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal vent plumes: Ecological and biogeographic linkages to seafloor and water column habitats

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Dick, Gregory J ^a,b   Anantharaman, Karthik ^a   Baker, Brett J ^a   Li, Meng ^a   Reed, Daniel C ^a   Sheik, Cody S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Biogeography; Chemoautotroph; Chemosynthesis; Deep sea; Hydrothermal; Vent

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; DEEP SEA SPECIES; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ECOLOGICAL FALLACY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS; METHANOTROPH; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLUME; REVIEW;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84884274579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00124     Document Type: Review

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