Low taxon richness of bacterioplankton in high-altitude lakes of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, with a predominance of Bacteroidetes and Synechococcus spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7017-7025

  Xing, Peng ^a   Hahn, Martin W ^b   Wu, Qinglong L ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; LIBRARIES; RNA; WATER;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION;

LAKES;

FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RNA; SALINITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTEROIDETES; CHINA; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; LAKE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TAXON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 70449339400     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01544-09     Document Type: Article

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