Good to the bone: Microbial community thrives within bone cavities of a bison carcass at Yellowstone National Park

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2403-2415

  Reeb, Valérie ^a   Kolel, Avraham ^a   McDermott, Timothy R ^b   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BONE; BUFFALO; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BISON; BONE AND BONES; CHLOROPHYTA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; GENE LIBRARY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; WYOMING;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BISON; CHLOROPHYTA; FUNGI; STICHOCOCCUS; THELEBOLALES;

EID: 80051953302     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02359.x     Document Type: Article

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