Diversity of bacterial communities in the lakes of schirmacher oasis, Antarctica

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7441, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mojib, Nazia ^a   Huang, Jonathan ^a   Hoover, Richard B ^b   Pikuta, Elena V ^c   Storrie Lombardi, Michael ^d   Sattler, Birgit ^e   Andersenf, Dale ^f   Bej, Asim K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d Kinohi Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^f SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; Antarctica; Biodiversity; Lakes; Microbial taxonomy; Microorganisms; Phylogenetics; Schirmacher oasis

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ANTARCTICA; MICROBIAL TAXONOMY; PHYLOGENETICS; SCHIRMACHER OASIS;

ASTROBIOLOGY; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA; TAXONOMIES;

BACTERIA;

EID: 70449497583     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.831289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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