Biogeographic congruency among bacterial communities from terrestrial sulfidic springs

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Headd, Brendan ^a,b   Engel, Annette S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; biogeography; Epsilonproteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Microbiome; Sulfur oxidizing bacteria

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONDUCTANCE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SCORING SYSTEM; SULFUR CYCLE; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HYDROGENIMONAS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SULFURIMONAS; SULFUROVUM; THIOTHRIX;

EID: 84908698135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00473     Document Type: Article

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