Molecular characterization of total and metabolically active bacterial communities of "white colonizations" in the Altamira Cave, Spain

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-47

  Portillo, M Carmen ^a   Saiz Jimenez, Cesareo ^a   Gonzalez, Juan M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active bacterial community; Altamira Cave; Bacterial diversity; cDNA; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; RNA; Spain

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BACTERIA; CONFINED SPACES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; PAINTINGS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 58149330415     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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