Microbial biodiversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils of Tramway Ridge, Mount Erebus, Antarctica

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 715-728

  Soo, Rochelle M ^a   Wood, Susanna A ^a,b   Grzymski, Joseph J ^c   McDonald, Ian R ^a   Cary, S Craig ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CRENARCHAEOTA; OTUS;

EID: 61449163988     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01859.x     Document Type: Article

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