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Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.02602-06
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Comparison of aerobic methanotrophic communities in littoral and profundal sediment of Lake Constance by a molecular approach

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	Abstract

Analysis of pmoA and 16S rDNA clone libraries of methanotrophic bacteria in Lake Constance revealed an overall dominance of Type I methanotrophs both in littoral and profundal sediments. Both types of sediments exhibited minor differences in their methanotrophic community structures. Type X methanotrophs made up a significant part of the clone libraries only in the profundal sediment, and were found only there as a prominent peak also by T-RFLP analyses.

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