Article
Extraordinary phylogenetic diversity and metabolic versatility in aquifer sediment.
Nature communications - 1 Jan 2013
Castelle Cindy J, Hug Laura A, Wrighton Kelly C, Thomas Brian C, Williams Kenneth H, Wu Dongying, Tringe Susannah G, Singer Steven W, Eisen Jonathan A, Banfield Jillian F
Abstract excerpt
Microorganisms in the subsurface represent a substantial but poorly understood component of the Earth's biosphere. Subsurface environments are complex and difficult to characterize; thus, their microbiota have remained as a 'dark matter' of the carbon and other biogeochemical cycles. Here we deeply sequence two sediment-hosted microbial communities from an aquifer adjacent to the Colorado River, CO, USA. No...
Topics
- Bacteria
- Catalytic Domain
- Energy Metabolism
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Geologic Sediments
- Groundwater
- Iron-Sulfur Proteins
- Likelihood Functions
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oxidoreductases
- Phylogeny
- Ribosomal Proteins