Bacterial communities and the nitrogen cycle in the gypsum soils of Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Coahuila: A mars analogue

Astrobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 699-709

  López Lozano, Nguyen E ^a   Eguiarte, Luis E ^a   Bonilla Rosso, Germán ^a   García Oliva, Felipe ^b   Martínez Piedragil, Celeste ^b   Rooks, Christine ^a   Souza, Valeria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cuatro Ci negas Basin; Gale Crater; Gypsum soil microbial diversity; Molecular ecology; Nitrogen cycle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; ASTROBIOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENITRIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEXICO; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

BACTERIA; CALCIUM SULFATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENITRIFICATION; EXOBIOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MARS; MEXICO; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84865514633     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2012.0840     Document Type: Article

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