Microbial Diversity and Heterogeneity in Sandy Subsurface Soils

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1723-1734

  Zhou, Jizhong ^a   Xia, Beicheng ^b   Huang, Heshu ^a   Palumbo, Anthony V ^a   Tiedje, James M ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CLONES; SUBSURFACE SOIL SAMPLES;

CELL CULTURE; CLONING; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; SOILS;

BACTERIA;

RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SANDY SOIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HALOMONAS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; RNA GENE; SANDY SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; DELAWARE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRGINIA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; HALOMONAS; NEGIBACTERIA; OTUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

EID: 1642342085     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1723-1734.2004     Document Type: Article

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