Poles apart: Biodiversity and biogeography of sea ice bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 1999, Pages 189-215

  Staley, James T ^a   Gosink, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial biodiversity; Polar microbiology; Psychrophilic bacteria; Sea ice microbiology

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE; BACTEROIDES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; ICE; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032697215     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.53.1.189     Document Type: Review

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