Microbial diversity in water and sediment of Lake Chaka, an athalassohaline lake in northwestern China

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3832-3845

  Jiang, Hongchen ^a   Dong, Hailiang ^a   Zhang, Gengxin ^a   Yu, Bingsong ^b   Chapman, Leah R ^a   Fields, Matthew W ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC; BACTEROIDETES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; REDOX STATE; WATER-SEDIMENT INTERFACE;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GAMMA RAYS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEDIMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER;

MICROORGANISMS;

LAKE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE WATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTEROIDETES; CHINA; GAMMA RADIATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LAKE CHAKA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; HALOBACTERIALES;

EID: 33745145824     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02869-05     Document Type: Article

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