Microbial metagenomes from three aquifers in the Fennoscandian shield terrestrial deep biosphere reveal metabolic partitioning among populations

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1192-1203

  Wu, Xiaofen ^a   Holmfeldt, Karin ^a   Hubalek, Valerie ^b   Lundin, Daniel ^a   Åström, Mats ^a   Bertilsson, Stefan ^b   Dopson, Mark ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; BIOSPHERE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HYDROGEN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

BALTIC SHIELD; EAST EUROPEAN CRATON;

PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCLASSIFIED ARCHAEA; UNCLASSIFIED BACTERIA;

GROUND WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84944910110     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.185     Document Type: Article

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