Coupled reductive and oxidative sulfur cycling in the phototrophic plate of a meromictic lake

Geobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 451-468

  Hamilton, T L ^a   Bovee, R J ^b   Thiel, V ^a   Sattin, S R ^b   Mohr, W ^b   Schaperdoth, I ^a   Vogl, K ^a   Gilhooly, W P ^c   Lyons, T W ^d   Tomsho, L P ^a   Schuster, S C ^a,e   Overmann, J ^f   Bryant, D A ^a,e,g   Pearson, A ^b   Macalady, J L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^g MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BENTHOS; CARBON CYCLE; CLINE; HETEROTROPHY; MEROMICTIC LAKE; OXIDATION; PHOTIC ZONE; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REDUCTION; SULFUR CYCLE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; MAHONEY LAKE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIACEAE; THIOHALOCAPSA;

SULFUR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CANADA; CHROMATIACEAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHROMATIACEAE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LAKES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR;

EID: 84906085977     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12092     Document Type: Article

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