Abundance and community of snow bacteria from three glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1418-1424

  Zhang, Shuhong ^a,c   Yang, Guangli ^a   Wang, Yetang ^c,d   Hou, Shugui ^b,c  

^a SHANGQIU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d Shandong Marine Fisheries Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial diversity; Glacial snow; The Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA SEQUENCES; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; CELL ABUNDANCE; COLD REGIONS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GLACIAL SNOW; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; RNA; SNOW;

BACTERIOLOGY;

RNA 16S; SNOW;

BACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; ENDEMISM; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GLACIER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NICHE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ICE COVER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SNOW; TIBET;

CHINA; HAILUOGOU GLACIER; LAOHUGOU GLACIER; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; RONGBUK GLACIER; SICHUAN; XINJIANG UYGUR; XIZANG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BLASTOCOCCUS; BREVUNDIMONAS; DELFTIA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HYLEMONELLA; HYMENOBACTER; POLAROMONAS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOFERAX; STREPTOMYCES; ZOOGLOEA;

EID: 77956527832     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(09)60269-2     Document Type: Article

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