Sunlight-exposed biofilm microbial communities are naturally resistant to chernobyl ionizing-radiation levels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Ragon, Marie ^a   Restoux, Gwendal ^a   Moreira, David ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^a   López García, Purificación ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEINOCOCCALES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GREEN ALGA; IONIZING RADIATION; IRELAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUBROBACTER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUNLIGHT; TAXONOMY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGUS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROPHYTA; DEINOCOCCALES; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; RUBROBACTER;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHLOROPHYTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, INTERGENIC; FUNGI; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NORTHERN IRELAND; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 79960257238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021764     Document Type: Article

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