Bacterial diversity in faeces from polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in Arctic Svalbard

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Glad, Trine ^a   Bernhardsen, Pål ^a   Nielsen, Kaare M ^a   Brusetti, Lorenzo ^b   Andersen, Magnus ^c   Aars, Jon ^c   Sundset, Monica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FIRMICUTES; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLAR BEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BEAR; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOSTRIDIUM; FIRMICUTES; URSUS MARITIMUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; FECES; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SVALBARD; URSIDAE;

EID: 77149147410     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-10     Document Type: Article

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