Bacterial community structure in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 7902-7908

  Drees, Kevin P ^a,b   Neilson, Julia W ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^a   Quade, Jay ^a   Henderson, David A ^a   Pryor, Barry M ^a   Maier, Raina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PLANCTOMYCETES PHYLA;

BACTERIA;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT SOIL; ELECTROKINESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM; CHILE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DESERT; GEMMATIMONADETES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANCTOMYCETES; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA; CHILE; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEMMATIMONADETES; PLANCTOMYCETES;

EID: 33845524997     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01305-06     Document Type: Article

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