A Hump-Backed Trend in Bacterial Diversity with Elevation on Mount Fuji, Japan

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 429-437

  Singh, Dharmesh ^a   Takahashi, Koichi ^b   Kim, Mincheol ^a   Chun, Jongsik ^a   Adams, Jonathan M ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; BACTERIA; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856761504     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9900-1     Document Type: Article

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