Microbial sequences retrieved from environmental samples from seasonal Arctic snow and meltwater from Svalbard, Norway

Extremophiles

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-212

  Larose, Catherine ^a,b   Berger, Sibel ^c   Ferrari, Christophe ^a   Navarro, Elisabeth ^c   Dommergue, Aurélien ^a   Schneider, Dominique ^a,b   Vogel, Timothy M ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Univ Claude Bernard Lyon1   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biodiversity; Environmental samples; Meltwater; Snow bacteria

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIA;

EID: 77951765839     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0299-2     Document Type: Article

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