Microbial community of the deep-sea brine Lake Kryos seawater-brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 364-382

  Yakimov, Michail M ^a   La Cono, Violetta ^a   Spada, Gina L ^a   Bortoluzzi, Giovanni ^b   Messina, Enzo ^a   Smedile, Francesco ^a   Arcadi, Erika ^a   Borghini, Mireno ^b   Ferrer, Manuel ^c   Schmitt Kopplin, Phillippe ^d,e   Hertkorn, Norbert ^d   Cray, Jonathan A ^f   Hallsworth, John E ^f   Golyshin, Peter N ^g   Giuliano, Laura ^a,h  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO DE CATÁLISIS Y PETROLEOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^g BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h Marine Economics Research Programme   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOHALOBIUM; EURYARCHAEOTA;

INORGANIC SALT; MESSENGER RNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; LAKE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; LAKES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SALTS; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84923817305     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12587     Document Type: Article

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