Metagenomic insights into the uncultured diversity and physiology of microbes in four hypersaline soda lake brines

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Vavourakis, Charlotte D ^a   Ghai, Rohit ^b,c   Rodriguez Valera, Francisco ^b   Sorokin, Dimitry Y ^d,e   Tringe, Susannah G ^f   Hugenholtz, Philip ^g   Muyzer, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteroidetes; Cellulase; Chitinase; Halobacteria; Hydrolytics; Nanohaloarchaea; Rhodopsin; Soda lake brines

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTEROIDETES; CARBON METABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOBACTERIALES; HETEROTROPHY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; METAGENOMICS; METHANOLOBUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SALT LAKE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84962090377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00211     Document Type: Article

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