Microbial community variation in pristine and polluted nearshore Antarctic sediments

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-145

  Powell, Shane M ^a   Bowman, John P ^a   Snape, Ian ^b   Stark, Jonathan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic microbial ecology; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Impacted sediment

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; PETROLEUM; RIBOSOME DNA; ZINC;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PETROLEUM; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA LIBRARY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0038107873     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00135-1     Document Type: Article

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