High frequency of phylogenetically diverse reductive dehalogenase-homologous genes in deep subseafloor sedimentary metagenomes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Kawai, Mikihiko ^a   Futagami, Taiki ^a,b   Toyoda, Atsushi ^c   Takaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Nishi, Shinro ^a   Hori, Sayaka ^a   Arai, Wataru ^a   Tsubouchi, Taishi ^a   Morono, Yuki ^a   Uchiyama, Ikuo ^d,e   Ito, Takehiko ^f   Fujiyama, Asao ^c   Inagaki, Fumio ^a   Takami, Hideto ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep biosphere; Dehalogenation; Metagenome; RdhA; Sedimentary habitat

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIA; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDACEAE; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOBACTER; HYDROGEN SULFITE REDUCTASE GENE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASE GENE; RNA 16S GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEWANELLA; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84897929470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00080     Document Type: Article

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