Phylogenetic characterization of the blue filamentous bacterial community from an Icelandic geothermal spring

C D. Takacs; M Ehringer; R Favre; M Cermola; G Eggertsson; A Palsdottir; A -L. Reysenbach

doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00795.x

Phylogenetic characterization of the blue filamentous bacterial community from an Icelandic geothermal spring

FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2001 Apr;35(2):123-128. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00795.x.

Authors

C D. Takacs, M Ehringer, R Favre, M Cermola, G Eggertsson, A Palsdottir, A -L. Reysenbach

PMID: 11295450
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2001.tb00795.x

Abstract

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a blue filamentous community from an alkaline thermal spring (79-83 degrees C) in Iceland revealed that the blue filaments were affiliated with the Aquificales. The dominant sequence type, pIce1, was most closely related to a sequence (SRI-48) found in a white filamentous community from a separate Icelandic thermal spring and the pink filaments (EM17) from Yellowstone National Park. Fluorescent in situ hybridization with clone-specific oligonucleotide probes showed that the sample analyzed was essentially a monoculture of a single phylotype.