Bacterial 'cosmopolitanism' and importance of local environmental factors for community composition in remote high-altitude lakes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 994-1005

  Sommaruga, Ruben ^a   Casamayor, Emilio O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpine lakes; Bacteria; Biogeography; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 64149130723     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02146.x     Document Type: Article

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