Microbes in high arctic snow and implications for the cold biosphere

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3234-3243

  Harding, Tommy ^a   Jungblut, Anne D ^b   Lovejoy, Connie ^c   Vincent, Warwick F ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL TRANSPORT; ALPINE REGIONS; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADIAN ARCTIC; EUKARYA; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH ARCTIC; LOCAL SOURCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL MATS; MICROBIOTAS; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; REMOTE SITES; RRNA GENES; SMALL SUBUNITS; WINTER SNOWPACK;

BACTERIA; BIOSPHERICS; GENES; RNA; SEA ICE;

SNOW;

RIBOSOME DNA; SNOW;

BACTERIUM; BIOSPHERE; COLD AIR; COLD REGION; EUKARYOTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SNOWPACK;

AIR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

AIR; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNOW;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; OTUS;

EID: 79958225959     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02611-10     Document Type: Article

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