Diel metabolomics analysis of a hot spring chlorophototrophic microbial mat leads to new hypotheses of community member metabolisms

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Young Mo ^a   Nowack, Shane ^b   Olsen, Millie ^b   Becraft, Eric D ^b,g   Wood, Jason M ^b   Thiel, Vera ^c   Klapper, Isaac ^b,d   Kühl, Michael ^e,f   Fredrickson, James K ^a   Bryant, Donald A ^b,c   Ward, David M ^b   Metz, Thomas O ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Temple University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Metabolomics; Microbial mats; Polyhydroxyalkanoates; Roseiflexus; Synechococcus; Wax esters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FERMENTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MUSHROOM; TEMPERATURE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; ROSEIFLEXUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84927132155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00209     Document Type: Article

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