Microbial diversity in alpine tundra wet meadow soil: Novel Chloroflexi from a cold, water-saturated environment

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1471-1486

  Costello, Elizabeth K ^a   Schmidt, Steven K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEASON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROFLEXI; COLORADO; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS);

EID: 33745793824     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01041.x     Document Type: Article

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