The archaeal lipidome in estuarine sediment dominated by members of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2441-2458

  Meador, Travis B ^a   Bowles, Marshall ^a   Lazar, Cassandre S ^a,b,c   Zhu, Chun ^a   Teske, Andreas ^b   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; QUERCUS ALBA;

ARCHAEAL DNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUTANOL; METHANE; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; ESTUARY; GENETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

BIOMARKERS; BUTANOLS; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ESTUARIES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIPID METABOLISM; METHANE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES;

EID: 84930233392     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12716     Document Type: Article

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