A novel Antarctic microbial endolithic community within gypsum crusts

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 555-565

  Hughes, Kevin A ^a   Lawley, Blair ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SPHINGOMONAS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERTICILLIUM;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMES; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPHINGOMONAS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VERTICILLIUM; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; VERTICILLIUM SP.;

EID: 0037626570     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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