Atmospheric cloud water contains a diverse bacterial community

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 5399-5405

  Kourtev, Peter S ^a   Hill, Kimberly A ^b   Shepson, Paul B ^a,b,c   Konopka, Allan ^a,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Bacteria; Cloud water; PCR DGGE

Indexed keywords

16S RDNA; 16S RRNA GENE; ACTINOBACTERIA; AMPLICONS; AQUATIC SYSTEM; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CLOUD WATER; CUMULUS CLOUD; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIRECT CONTACT; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; FIRMICUTES; HUMAN HEALTH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; OROGRAPHIC CLOUD; PCR-DGGE; PHYLOTYPES; PROTEOBACTERIA; WATER SAMPLES;

CLOUDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

BACTERIOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CUMULUS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC CLOUD WATER; CLOUD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER SAMPLING;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 79960934132     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.041     Document Type: Article

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