Responses of Antarctic soil microbial communities and associated functions to temperature and freeze-thaw cycle frequency

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2223-2235

  Yergeau, Etienne ^a   Kowalchuk, George A ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; FUNGAL RNA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FREEZING; FUNGI; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 48749130437     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01644.x     Document Type: Article

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