Heterotrophic Communities Supplied by Ancient Organic Carbon Predominate in Deep Fennoscandian Bedrock Fluids

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 319-332

  Purkamo, Lotta ^a   Bomberg, Malin ^a   Nyyssönen, Mari ^a   Kukkonen, Ilmo ^b,c   Ahonen, Lasse ^b   Itävaara, Merja ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Deep subsurface; Functional microbial communities; Heterotrophy; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; GENETIC MARKER; METHANE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FINLAND; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FINLAND; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; METHANE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84925513847     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: 1432184X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-014-0490-6     Document Type: Article

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