Biogeography and habitat modelling of high-alpine bacteria

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  King, Andrew J ^a   Freeman, Kristen R ^a   McCormick, Katherine F ^a   Lynch, Ryan C ^a   Lozupone, Catherine ^a,b   Knight, Rob ^a   Schmidt, Steven K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOINFORMATICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; PH; RHIZOBIALES; RHODOSPIRILLALES; SAPROSPIRALES; SOIL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOSPIRILLALES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 78650142323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1055     Document Type: Article

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