Cyanobacteria and chloroflexi-dominated hypolithic colonization of quartz at the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

Extremophiles

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-38

  Lacap, Donnabella C ^a   Warren Rhodes, Kimberley A ^b   McKay, Christopher P ^b   Pointing, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama; Chloroflexi; Chroococcidiopsis; Desert; Hyper arid; Hypolith

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DEINOCOCCI; EMBRYOPHYTA; GEMMATIMONADETES; NOSTOCALES;

EID: 78651248511     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-010-0334-3     Document Type: Article

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