Novelty and spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the bacterial diversity of hypersaline Lake Tebenquiche (Salar de Atacama)

Extremophiles

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-504

  Demergasso, Cecilia ^a,b   Escudero, Lorena ^b,d   Casamayor, Emilio O ^c   Chong, Guillermo ^a,b   Balagué, Vanessa ^d   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b Centro de Investigacion Cientifico y Tecnologico de la Mineria Chile   (Chile)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Bacteroidetes; Biodiversity; Clone libraries; DGGE; Ecology; Extremophiles; Fingerprinting; Gammaproteobacteria; Hypersaline; Salar; Salt lake; Tebenquiche

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC SALT; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIA; CHILE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALINIBACTER; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIUM;

EID: 46149110769     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-008-0153-y     Document Type: Article

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