Culturable bacteria in glacial meltwater at 6,350 m on the East Rongbuk Glacier, Mount Everest

Extremophiles

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-99

  Liu, Yongqin ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Jiao, Nianzhi ^b   Kang, Shichang ^a   Huang, Sijun ^b   Li, Qiang ^b   Wang, Kejuan ^b   Liu, Xiaobo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Culturable bacteria; Glacial meltwater; Mt Everest

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEPAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEPAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 58149187969     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-008-0200-8     Document Type: Article

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