Seasonal change in bacterial flora and biomass in mountain snow from the Tateyama Mountains, Japan, analyzed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and real-time PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-130

  Segawa, Takahiro ^a   Miyamoto, Koji ^a   Ushida, Kazunari ^b   Agata, Kiyokazu ^c   Okada, Norihiro ^a   Kohshima, Shiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DNA; GENES; MELTING; NUTRITION; RNA; SNOW;

BACTERIAL COLONIES; BACTERIAL FLORA; SPECIES; SURFACE SNOW;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S; SNOW;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOMASS; CRYOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; JANTHINOBACTERIUM LIVIDUM; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUNTAINEERING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNOW;

ASIA; CHUBU; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TATEYAMA MOUNTAINS; TOYAMA [CHUBU]; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CRYOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; JANTHINOBACTERIUM; JANTHINOBACTERIUM LIVIDUM; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

EID: 12244304186     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.1.123-130.2005     Document Type: Article

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