Detection of viable yeast in 3-million-year-old permafrost soils of siberia

Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 546-550

  Dmitriev, V V ^a   Gilichinskii, D A ^b   Faizutdinova, R N ^a   Shershunov, I N ^a   Golubev, V I ^a   Duda, V I ^a  

^a SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eukaryotes; Identification; Permafrost; Prokaryotes; Reactivation; Ultrastructure; Viability; Yeast

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006229942     PISSN: 00262617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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