Culturable Diversity of Heterotrophic Bacteria in Forlidas Pond (Pensacola Mountains) and Lundström Lake (Shackleton Range), Antarctica

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 399-413

  Peeters, Karolien ^a   Hodgson, Dominic A ^b   Convey, Peter ^b   Willems, Anne ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTROPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POND; RNA GENE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; LAKES; PHYLOGENY; PONDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BOSEA (BACTERIA); CURVIBACTER; FIRMICUTES; LUTEIMONAS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOXANTHOMONAS; SPHINGOPYXIS; SPIROSOMA;

EID: 80051794632     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9842-7     Document Type: Article

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