Disturbed subsurface microbial communities follow equivalent trajectories despite different structural starting points

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 622-636

  Handley, Kim M ^a,c   Wrighton, Kelly C ^a,g   Miller, Christopher S ^a,h   Wilkins, Michael J ^d,g   Kantor, Rose S ^b   Thomas, Brian C ^a   Williams, Kenneth H ^e   Gilbert, Jack A ^c,f   Long, Philip E ^e   Banfield, Jillian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMAMONADACEAE; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOSPOROSINUS; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DESULFUROMONADALES;

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; IRON; SULFATE;

BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMAMONADACEAE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOTOMACULUM; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

ACETIC ACID; BACTEROIDETES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMAMONADACEAE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOTOMACULUM; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SULFATES;

EID: 84925118957     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12467     Document Type: Article

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