Microbial diversity in a Venezuelan orthoquartzite cave is dominated by the Chloroflexi (Class Ktedonobacterales) and Thaumarchaeota Group I.1c

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Barton, Hazel A ^a   Giarrizzo, Juan G ^b   Suarez, Paula ^c   Robertson, Charles E ^d   Broering, Mark J ^b   Banks, Eric D ^b   Vaishampayan, Parag A ^e   Venkateswaran, Kasthisuri ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cave; Geomicrobiology; Ktedonobacterales; Orthoquartzite; Thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON TETRAOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BEIJERINCKIACEAE; CAVE; CELL COUNTING; CHLOROFLEXI; CRENARCHAEOTA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEMMATIMONADETES; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMIDITY; LUMINESCENCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NITROSOPHAERA; NITROSOPUMILIUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETES; THAUMARCHAEOTA; VENEZUELA; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS);

EID: 84920554717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00615     Document Type: Article

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