A long-term cultivation of an anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial community from deep-sea methane-seep sediment using a continuous-flow bioreactor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Aoki, Masataka ^a,b   Ehara, Masayuki ^b   Saito, Yumi ^a   Yoshioka, Hideyoshi ^c   Miyazaki, Masayuki ^a   Saito, Yayoi ^a,b   Miyashita, Ai ^b   Kawakami, Shuji ^b,d   Yamaguchi, Takashi ^b   Ohashi, Akiyoshi ^e   Nunoura, Takuro ^a   Takai, Ken ^a   Imachi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d ANAN NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; METHANE; POLYURETHAN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BENTHOS; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; DEEP SEA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOREACTOR; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOREACTORS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEAWATER;

EID: 84927141621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105356     Document Type: Article

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