Diversity within cyanobacterial mat communities in variable salinity meltwater ponds of McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 519-529

  Jungblut, Anne Dorothee ^a   Hawes, Ian ^b   Mountfort, Doug ^c   Hitzfeld, Bettina ^d   Dietrich, Daniel R ^e   Burns, Brendan P ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^d Swiss Agy Environ Forests L   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 15944386709     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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