title: Diversity and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in hydrothermal vent chimneys of the juan de fuca ridge.
abstract: The abundance and diversity of archaeal ammonia monooxygenase subunit A (amoA) genes from hydrothermal vent chimneys at the Juan de Fuca Ridge were investigated. The majority of the retrieved archaeal amoA sequences exhibited identities of less than 95% to those in the GenBank database. Novel ammonia-oxidizing archaea may exist in the hydrothermal vent environments.
authors.affiliation: Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shufang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Lijing
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Xiaotong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Huaiyang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Fengping
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000641:Ammonia / Q000378:metabolism*; D001105:Archaea / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D019843:Archaeal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019641:DNA, Archaeal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D045482:Hot Springs / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010802:Phylogeny; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D019843:Archaeal Proteins; D019641:DNA, Archaeal; D000641:Ammonia