Microbial diversity in the Cedars, an ultrabasic, ultrareducing, and low salinity serpentinizing ecosystem

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 15336-15341

  Suzuki, Shino ^a   Ishii, Shun'Ichi ^a   Wu, Angela ^a   Cheung, Andrea ^b,d   Tenney, Aaron ^a   Wanger, Greg ^a   Kuenen, J Gijs ^b,c   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a,b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaliphile; Biodiversity; Extremophile; Hydrogen; Small subunit rRNA

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHLOROFLEXI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SALINITY; SERPENTINIZATION;

ALKALIPHILE; BIODIVERSITY; EXTREMOPHILE; HYDROGEN; SMALL SUBUNIT RRNA;

ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NATURAL SPRINGS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84884324550     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302426110     Document Type: Article

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