The role of tetraether lipid composition in the adaptation of thermophilic archaea to acidity

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Boyd, Eric S ^a   Hamilton, Trinity L ^a,d   Wang, Jinxiang ^b   He, Liu ^c   Zhang, Chuanlun L ^b,c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Tongji University   (China)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AmoA; Community ecology; Crenarchaeol; Nitrification; Nitrosocaldus; Phylogenetic ecology; Tetraether lipids

Indexed keywords

CRENARCHAEOL; LIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NITROSOCALDUS YELLOWSTONII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE; TETRAETHER LIPID COMPOSITION; THERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84884275010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00062     Document Type: Article

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