Prokaryotic taxonomic and metabolic diversity of an intermediate salinity hypersaline habitat assessed by metagenomics

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 623-635

  Fernández, Ana B ^a   Ghai, Rohit ^b   Martin Cuadrado, Ana Belen ^b   Sánchez Porro, Cristina ^a   Rodriguez Valera, Francisco ^b   Ventosa, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compatible solutes; Extreme environments; Haloarchaea; Halophilic bacteria; Metagenome; Saltern

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; DNA; EXTREMOPHILE; GENOMICS; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POND; PROKARYOTE; SALINITY; TAXONOMY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI; PROKARYOTA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPATIBLE SOLUTES; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POND; SALINITY; SALTERN;

COMPATIBLE SOLUTES; EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS; HALOARCHAEA; HALOPHILIC BACTERIA; METAGENOME; SALTERN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PONDS; SALINITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84901688745     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12329     Document Type: Article

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