Prokaryotic diversity in sediments beneath two polar glaciers with contrasting organic carbon substrates

Extremophiles

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-265

  Stibal, Marek ^a,c   Hasan, Fariha ^a,d   Wadham, Jemma L ^a   Sharp, Martin J ^b   Anesio, Alexandre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Archaea; Bacteria; Diversity; Greenland; Subglacial environment

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OXYGEN; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84857915372     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-011-0426-8     Document Type: Article

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