Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Microorganisms Isolated from a Deep Greenland Glacier Ice Core

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 202-213

  Miteva, V I ^a   Sheridan, P P ^a,b   Brenchley, J E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC VARIATIONS;

AMPLIFICATION; ANTIBIOTICS; BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; ICE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MICROORGANISMS;

AGAR; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTEROIDES; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GREENLAND; ICE CORE RECORD; INCUBATION TIME; JUKES CANTOR EVOLUTIONARY DISTANCE MATRIX; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES CULTIVATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; ICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0346500434     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.202-213.2004     Document Type: Article

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