Abundance and Diversity of Biofilms in Natural and Artificial Aquifers of the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 410-422

  Jägevall, Sara ^a,b   Rabe, Lisa ^b   Pedersen, Karsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Microbial Analytics Sweden AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEDEN;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; SWEDEN; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOMICROBIUM; DESULFORHOPALUS; DESULFOVIBRIO; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 79951514667     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9761-z     Document Type: Article

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