Diversity of microbial communities colonizing the walls of a Karstic cave in Slovenia

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-60

  Pašić, Lejla ^a   Kovče, Barbara ^a   Sket, Boris ^a   Herzog Velikonja, Blagajana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Bacteria; Cave; Diversity; Hypogean environments; Microbial communities

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

CAVE; GENE EXPRESSION; KARST; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CLONING; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITROSPIRALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVENIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SLOVENIA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; NITROSPIRA; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROKARYOTA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 71549140700     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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