Evidence for geographic isolation and signs of endemism within a protistan morphospecies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5159-5164

  Boenigk, Jens ^a   Pfandl, Karin ^a   Garstecki, Tobias ^b,e   Harms, Hauke ^d   Novarino, Gianfranco ^c   Chatzinotas, Antonis ^d  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RNA;

FLAGELLATES; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PROTISTAN MORPHOSPECIES;

MICROORGANISMS;

RNA 18S;

ADAPTATION; ENDEMISM; FLAGELLATE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD TOLERANCE; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LISTONELLA; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALGAE, GOLDEN-BROWN; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA;

MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA; SPUMELLA;

EID: 33747341582     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00601-06     Document Type: Article

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