Protist diversity in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic Lake during the polar night transition

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1559-1564

  Bielewicz, Scott ^a   Bell, Elanor ^b   Kong, Weidong ^a   Friedberg, Iddo ^a   Priscu, John C ^c   Morgan Kiss, Rachael M ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ice covered lake; McMurdo Dry Valleys; microbial eukaryotes; polar night; protists

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; FOOD WEB; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ICE COVER; LAKE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OASIS; PHOTIC ZONE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER COLUMN; WATERSHED;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; EUKARYOTA; FRESH WATER; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE BONNEY [EAST ANTARCTICA];

CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 80052039405     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.23     Document Type: Article

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