Examination of Antarctic prokaryotic diversity through molecular comparisons

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1295-1305

  Franzmann, P D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Antarctica; Archaea; Bacteria; biodiversity; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; PROKARYOTE; TAXONOMY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0030301488     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051980     Document Type: Article

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