Bacterial diversity in a deep-subsurface clay environment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3405-3412

  Boivin Jahns, V ^a   Ruimy, R ^a   Bianchi, A ^b   Daumas, S ^c   Christen, R ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GRAM SA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BELGIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; CLAY DEPOSIT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENT;

BELGIUM, MOL;

EID: 0029661073     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3405-3412.1996     Document Type: Article

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