Towards complete biodiversity assessment: An evaluation of the subterranean bacterial communities in the Oklo region of the sole surviving natural nuclear reactor

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-334

  Crozier, R H ^a   Agapow, P M ^a,c   Pedersen, K ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Molecular biodiversity; Molecular phylogeny; Oklo natural nuclear reactor; Ribosomal DNA sequence; Subterranean bacteria

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLONE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GABON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

GABON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033064013     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(98)00116-0     Document Type: Article

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