Variation in microbial community structure in two boreal peatlands as determined by analysis of phospholipid fatty acid profiles

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1476-1482

  Sundh, Ingvar ^a   Nilsson, Mats ^a   Borgå, Peter ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GROUND WATER; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; EUKARYOTE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PEATLAND;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0030613353     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1476-1482.1997     Document Type: Article

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