The microbial composition of three limnologically disparate hypersaline Antarctic lakes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-88

  Bowman, John P ^a   McCammon, Sharee A ^a   Rea, Suzanne M ^a   McMeekin, Tom A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Antarctica; Biodiversity; Haloanaerobiales; Halophilic Archaeon; Hypersaline lake

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALANAEROBIALES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIALES;

EID: 0033967441     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00633-3     Document Type: Article

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