Microbial cell budgets of an Arctic glacier surface quantified using flow cytometry

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2998-3012

  Irvine Fynn, T D L ^a   Edwards, A ^b   Newton, S ^c   Langford, H ^d   Rassner, S M ^a   Telling, J ^e   Anesio, A M ^e   Hodson, A J ^e,f  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; ICE COVER; MICROBIOLOGY; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ARCTIC REGIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; ICE COVER; SVALBARD;

EID: 84867985176     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02876.x     Document Type: Article

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