Bacteria beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 609-615

  Lanoil, Brian ^a,e   Skidmore, Mark ^a,b   Priscu, John C ^b   Han, Sukkyun ^a   Foo, Wilson ^a   Vogel, Stefan W ^c,f   Tulaczyk, Slawek ^c   Engelhardt, Hermann ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 61449120223     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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