Actinobacterial diversity in volcanic caves and associated geomicrobiological interactions

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Riquelme, Cristina ^a   Hathaway, Jennifer J Marshall ^b   Dapkevicius, Maria de L N Enes ^a   Miller, Ana Z ^c   Kooser, Ara ^b   Northup, Diana E ^b   Jurado, Valme ^c   Fernandez, Octavio ^d   Saiz Jimenez, Cesareo ^c   Cheeptham, Naowarat ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d Grupo de Espeleología Tebexcorade La Palma   (Spain)

^e THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actinobacteria; Microbe mineral interactions; Microbial diversity; Volcanic lava caves

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CAVE; CORIOBACTERIALES; EUZEBYALES; GAIELLALES; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEW COMBINATION (TAXONOMY); NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE; PYROSEQUENCING; RUBROBACTERALES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLIRUBROBACTERALES;

EID: 84953734979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01342     Document Type: Article

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