Cultured bacterial diversity and human impact on alpine glacier cryoconite

Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-362

  Lee, Yung Mi ^a   Kim, So Yeon ^b   Jung, Jia ^b   Kim, Eun Hye ^a   Cho, Kyeung Hee ^a   Schinner, Franz ^c   Margesin, Rosa ^c   Hong, Soon Gyu ^a   Lee, Hong Kum ^a  

^a Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Minjok Leadership Academy   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

bacterial diversity; cryoconite; human impact

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; JANTHINOBACTERIUM; JANTHINOBACTERIUM LIVIDUM; OLLEYA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS VERONII;

EID: 79959700134     PISSN: 12258873     EISSN: 12258873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-011-0232-0     Document Type: Article

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