Cyanobacterial diversity across landscape units in a polar desert: Taylor Valley, Antarctica

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 268-278

  Michaud, Alexander B ^a   Šabacká, Marie ^a   Priscu, John C ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Cyanobacteria; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Wind dispersion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PIGMENT; RNA 16S;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESERT; GENOMICS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLAR FRONT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; WIND;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WIND;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; TAYLOR VALLEY;

CYANOBACTERIA; OTUS;

EID: 84867702151     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01297.x     Document Type: Article

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