Temperature and injection water source influence microbial community structure in four Alaskan North Slope hydrocarbon reservoirs

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Piceno, Yvette M ^a,b   Reid, Francine C ^a,b   Tom, Lauren M ^a,b   Conrad, Mark E ^a,b   Bill, Markus ^a,b   Hubbard, Christopher G ^a,b   Fouke, Bruce W ^b,c   Graff, Craig J ^d   Han, Jiabin ^d   Stringfellow, William T ^a,b,e   Hanlon, Jeremy S ^a,e   Hu, Ping ^a,b   Hazen, Terry C ^f   Andersen, Gary L ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Energy Biosciences Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^f University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbiology; Petroleum; Phylochip; Reservoir; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ALASKA NATIVE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HALOMONAS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; TEMPERATURE; THERMOANAEROBACTER; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84987834862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00409     Document Type: Article

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