Census of bacterial microbiota associated with the glacier ice worm Mesenchytraeus solifugus

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Murakami, Takumi ^a   Segawa, Takahiro ^b,c   Bodington, Dylan ^a   Dial, Roman ^d   Takeuchi, Nozomu ^e   Kohshima, Shiro ^f   Hongoh, Yuichi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center   (Japan)

^d ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; Enchytraeid; Glacier ecology; Gut bacteria; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; BACTERIUM; CRYOSPHERE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RELATEDNESS; STARVATION; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENCHYTRAEIDAE; MESENCHYTRAEUS SOLIFUGUS; MOLLICUTES;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLLICUTES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ICE COVER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TENERICUTES;

EID: 84942307650     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv003     Document Type: Article

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