Filamentous Morphology as a Means for Thermophilic Bacteria to Survive Steep Physical and Chemical Gradients in Yellowstone Hot Springs
Yiran Dong1,2, Vaibhav Srivastava3, Vincent Bulone3, Kathleen M. Keating4, Radhika S. Khetani4, Christopher J. Fields4, William Inskeep5, Robert A. Sanford6, Peter M. Yau4, Brian S. Imai4, Alvaro G. Hernandez4, Chris Wright4, Mark Band4, Isaac K. Cann7, Dag Ahrén8, Kyle W. Fouke9, Mayandi Sivaguru10, Glenn Fried1 and Bruce W Fouke2,11, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Division of Glycoscience, School of Biotechnology, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, Urbana, United States, (5)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, (7)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Animal Sciences, Urbana, United States, (8)Lund University, Microbial Ecology Group, Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences, Department of Biology, Lund, Sweden, (9)Bucknell University, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Lewisburg, United States, (10)University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, Urbana, United States, (11)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, United States
