High archaeal diversity in Antarctic circumpolar deep waters

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 689-697

  Alonso Sáez, Laura ^a,b   Andersson, Anders ^a,c   Heinrich, Friederike ^a   Bertilsson, Stefan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

EID: 84859861263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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