Quantification of microbial communities in subsurface marine sediments of the Black Sea and off Namibia

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Schippers, Axel ^a,b   Kock, Dagmar ^a,b   Höft, Carmen ^a,b   Köweker, Gerrit ^a,b   Siegert, Michael ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benguela upwelling; Black sea; CARD FISH; Deep biosphere; Real time PCR; Sediments; Subsurface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872436155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00016     Document Type: Article

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