Diversity and phylogenetic analyses of bacteria from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in Milos island (Greece)

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Giovannelli, Donato ^a,b   d'Errico, Giuseppe ^b   Manini, Elena ^b   Yakimov, Michail ^c   Vetriani, Costantino ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Epsilonproteobacteria; Geothermal; Milos; Shallow water hydrothermal vent

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; GENOMIC DNA; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; RNA 16S;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; CLONE; CYTOPHAGA; DEEP SEA SPECIES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOTHERMOBACTER EHRLICHII; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; IGNAVIBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETES; POLARIBACTER; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PSEUDOMONAS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHALLOW WATER HYDROTHERMAL VENT; SULFURIMONAS AUTHOTROPHICA; SULFURIMONAS PARALVINELLAE; SULFUROVUM LITHOTROPHICUM; THIOALKALIVIBRIO DENITRIFICANS; THIOTHRIX EIKELBOOMII; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SULFUROVUM;

EID: 84885363759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00184     Document Type: Article

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