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Bacterial community analysis of Indonesian hot springs
G C Baker1, S Gaffar, D A Cowan
1Inter-University Research Centre for Biotechnology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Java, Indonesia.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|June 19, 2001
Abstract:
We report the first attempts to describe thermophilic bacterial communities in Indonesia's thermal springs using molecular phylogenetic analyses. 16S rRNA genes from laboratory cultures and DNA directly amplified from three hot springs in West Java were sequenced. The 22 sequences obtained were assignable to the taxa Proteobacteria, Bacillus and Flavobacterium, including a number of clades not normally associated with thermophily.