Life at the hyperarid margin: Novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

Extremophiles

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 553-566

  Neilson, Julia W ^a   Quade, Jay ^b   Ortiz, Marianyoly ^a   Nelson, William M ^a   Legatzki, Antje ^a   Tian, Fei ^a   LaComb, Michelle ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^c   Wing, Rod A ^a   Soderlund, Carol A ^a   Maier, Raina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid; Atacama Desert; Bacterial diversity; Pyrosequencing; Soil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CHILE; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CHILE; CHLOROFLEXI; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84860838112     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-012-0454-z     Document Type: Article

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