Freeze-thaw tolerance and clues to the winter survival of a soil community

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1784-1792

  Walker, Virginia K ^a   Palmer, Gerald R ^a   Voordouw, Gerrit ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZING; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; RNA; THAWING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; FREEZE-THAW CYCLES; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS;

SOILS;

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; ICE; RNA 16S;

FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CELL VIABILITY; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; FREEZE THAWING; GENE SEQUENCE; MELTING POINT; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL BACTERIUM; WIND; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CANADA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; SEASONS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WIND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS;

EID: 33644932401     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.1784-1792.2006     Document Type: Article

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