Phylogenetic diversity and functional gene patterns of sulfur-oxidizing subseafloor Epsilonproteobacteria in diffuse hydrothermal vent fluids

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Akerman, Nancy H ^a   Butterfield, David A ^b   Huber, Julie A ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Epsilonproteobacteria; Functional genes; Hydrothermal vent microbiology; Subseafloor; Sulfur oxidation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; METHANE; RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; DEEP SEA; DNA EXTRACTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE; GENUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA GENE; SULFURIMONAS DENITRIFICANS; VOLCANO;

EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; SULFURIMONAS; SULFUROVUM;

EID: 84885358071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00185     Document Type: Article

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