Active Microbial Communities Inhabit Sulphate-Methane Interphase in Deep Bedrock Fracture Fluids in Olkiluoto, Finland

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bomberg, Malin ^a   Nyyssönen, Mari ^a   Pitkänen, Petteri ^b   Lehtinen, Anne ^b   Itävaara, Merja ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b POSIVA OY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; METHANE; NITRATE; RNA 16S; SULFATE; MESSENGER RNA;

ACIDOVORAX; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CHLOROFLEXI; COMAMONADACEAE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DESULFOBACTER; DESULFOBACTERACEAE; FINLAND; INTERPHASE; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOSARCINALES; METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; ROCK; SALINITY; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; SULFIDE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; THERMOPLASMATALES; VERRUCOMICROBIA; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METHANE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES;

EID: 84938933909     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/979530     Document Type: Article

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