High diversity among feather-degrading bacteria from a dry meadow soil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 282-290

  Lucas, F S ^a   Broennimann, O ^a   Febbraro, I ^a   Heeb, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; FEATHER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; COLUMBIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEATHERS; KERATINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLUMBA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIALES;

EID: 0042632885     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-002-2032-x     Document Type: Article

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