Diazotrophic Community Structure and Function in Two Successional Stages of Biological Soil Crusts from the Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan Desert

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 973-983

  Yeager, Chris M ^a   Kornosky, Jennifer L ^a   Housman, David C ^b   Grote, Edmund E ^b   Belnap, Jayne ^b   Kuske, Cheryl R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; RNA; SOILS;

ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; POLYMORPHISM;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT SOIL; MICROORGANISM; SOIL CRUST; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESERT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCYTONEMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL QUALITY; UNITED STATES; WATER STRESS;

COLORADO; CYANOBACTERIA; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UTAH;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS; MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS; NOSTOC; SCYTONEMA;

EID: 2342559833     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.2.973-983.2004     Document Type: Article

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