Diversity of aerobic and facultative alkalitolerant and halotolerant endospore formers in soil from the Alvord Basin, Oregon

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 233-244

  Smith, Stephanie A ^a   Benardini III, James N ^a   Strap, Janice L ^b   Crawford, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Alkalitolerant; Bacillus; Endospores; Extremophiles; Halotolerant; PCR primers

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HALOPHILE; LAKE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; UNITED STATES;

ALKALIES; BACILLUS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOSPORE-FORMING BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OREGON; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALT-TOLERANCE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 67349135708     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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