@inproceedings{c05c4ba8c3aa4b8abcf5fc46e3a1822c,
title = "Community structure of H2S-oxidizing bacteria at Midorikawa mudflat, Japan",
abstract = "This study aimed to determine the composition of H2S-oxidizing bacteria from Midorikawa mudflat using a culture-independent approach based on the sulfide quinone reductase (sqr) gene. This gene is involved in the initial step of H2S oxidation resulting in elemental sulfur. Total DNA was extracted from the mudflat sediment. A partial sequence of sqr was amplified by PCR and a clone library was established. The results showed that the community of H2S oxidizers was dominated by Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria. Sequence similarity of sqr to the isolated reference strains from GenBank database were 76-88\%. However, a significant number of the clones were affiliated with uncultured bacteria. This indicated that diverse bacteria exist in Midorikawa mudflat to oxidize the released H2S, and most of them were previously undiscovered.",
keywords = "community structure, composition, HS-oxidizing bacteria, Midorikawa mudflat",
author = "Irfan Mustafa and Ryuta Kawauchi and Shigeru Morimura",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Author(s).; 9th International Conference on Global Resource Conservation and AJI from Ritsumeikan University, ICGRC 2018 ; Conference date: 07-03-2018 Through 08-03-2018",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1063/1.5061892",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Huyop, \{Fahrul Zaman Bin\} and Dian Siswanto and Retno Mastuti and Chairat Treesubsuntorn",
booktitle = "9th International Conference on Global Resource Conservation, ICGRC and AJI from Ritsumeikan University",
}