Article
Inter-field variability in the microbial communities of hydrothermal vent deposits from a back-arc basin.
Geobiology - 1 Jul 2012
Flores G E, Shakya M, Meneghin J, Yang Z K, Seewald J S, Geoff Wheat C, Podar M, Reysenbach A-L
Abstract excerpt
Diverse microbial communities thrive on and in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mineral deposits. However, our understanding of the inter-field variability in these communities is poor, as limited sampling and sequencing efforts have hampered most previous studies. To explore the inter-field variability in these communities, we used barcoded pyrosequencing of the variable region 4 (V4) of the 16S rRNA gene to...
Topics
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Biota
- DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Genetic Variation
- Geologic Sediments
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Phylogeography
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Sequence Analysis, DNA