Benthic bacterial diversity from freshwater tufas of the Iberian Range (Spain)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 363-379

  Beraldi Campesi, Hugo ^a   Arenas Abad, Concepción ^b   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^c   Arellano Aguilar, Omar ^a   Auqué, Luis ^b   Vázquez Urbez, Marta ^b   Sancho, Carlos ^b   Osácar, Cinta ^b   Ruiz Velasco, Silvia ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IIMAS UNAM   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacterial diversity; Freshwater; Tufa

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CHLORINE; CHLOROPLAST; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELECTROKINESIS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEL; GENE EXPRESSION; ION; LANDSCAPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SODIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SULFATE; TAXONOMY; TUFA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPAIN;

BACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PLANCTOMYCETES; XANTHOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84859573735     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01303.x     Document Type: Article

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