Distinct bacterial communities exist beneath a high arctic polythermal Glacier

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5838-5845

  Bhatia, Maya ^a,b   Sharp, Martin ^a   Foght, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GENES; GLACIERS; ICE; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

SUBGLACIAL DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; SUPRAGLACIAL COMMUNITIES; SURFACE MELTWATERS;

BACTERIA;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ICE; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; RNA 16S; SULFATE; WATER;

BACTERIUM; BASAL ICE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MELTWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RNA;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GLACIER; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ICE COVER; NITRATES; NUNAVUT; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; WATER;

ARCTIC; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; JOHN EVANS GLACIER; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748782507     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00595-06     Document Type: Article

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