Microbial diversity on the Tatahouine meteorite

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1249-1265

  Benzerara, Karim ^a   Chapon, Virginie ^b   Moreira, David ^c   López García, Purificación ^c   Guyot, François ^a   Heulin, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b IRFM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; DNA; METEORITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FLEXIBACTER; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33747874573     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00519.x     Document Type: Article

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