Bacterial community in ancient Siberian permafrost as characterized by culture and culture-independent methods

Astrobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 400-414

  Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A ^a,b   Petrova, Maya A ^a,c   Urbance, John ^a   Ponder, Monica ^a   Moyer, Craig L ^a,d   Gilichinsky, David A ^b   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA phylogeny; Arctic; Arthrobacter; Psychrobacter Exiguobacterium; Psychrotroph

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; COLD; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACTERIA; COLD; FRESH WATER; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SIBERIA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EXIGUOBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBACTERIACEAE; PLANOMICROBIUM; PSYCHROBACTER; SPHINGOMONAS; XANTHOMONADACEAE;

EID: 33746551644     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.6.400     Document Type: Article

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