Novel and unexpected prokaryotic diversity in water and sediments of the alkaline, hypersaline lakes of the Wadi An Natrun, Egypt (Microbial Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9193-y);Novel and unexpected prokaryotic diversity in water and sediments of the alkaline, hypersaline lakes of the Wadi An Natrun, Egypt

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 598-617

  Mesbah, Noha M ^a   Abou El Ela, Soad H ^b   Wiegel, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACILLALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIALES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALANAEROBIALES; OTUS; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 35448992467     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-007-9338-7     Document Type: Erratum

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