Levels of bacterial community diversity in four arid soils compared by cultivation and 16S rRNA gene cloning

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1662-1669

  Dunbar, John ^a   Takala, Shannon ^a   Barns, Susan M ^a   Davis, Jody A ^a   Kuske, Cheryl R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA GENE; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 0032914126     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1662-1669.1999     Document Type: Article

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