Dominance of putative marine benthic Archaea in Qinghai Lake, north-western China

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2355-2367

  Jiang, Hongchen ^a   Dong, Hailiang ^a,b   Yu, Bingsong ^b,c   Ye, Qi ^d   Shen, Ji ^e,f   Rowe, Harry ^g   Zhang, Chuanlun ^d  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b China University of Geosciences   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT;

ARCHAEA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; FRESH WATER; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 48749094780     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01661.x     Document Type: Article

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