Microbial hitchhikers on intercontinental dust: High-throughput sequencing to catalogue microbes in small sand samples

Aerobiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-84

  Giongo, Adriana ^a   Favet, Jocelyne ^b   Lapanje, Ales ^c   Gano, Kelsey A ^a   Kennedy, Suzanne ^d   Davis Richardson, Austin G ^a   Brown, Christopher ^a   Beck, Andreas ^e   Farmerie, William G ^a   Cattaneo, Arlette ^b   Crabb, David B ^a   Aung, Yin Yin ^b   Kort, Renate ^f   Brumsack, Hans Jürgen ^f   Schnetger, Bernhard ^f   Broughton, William J ^b,g   Gorbushina, Anna A ^b,g,h   Triplett, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Physical Biology   (Slovenia)

^d MO BIO Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^e BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^g Abteilung Material und Umwelt   (Germany)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S amplicons; Chad; Deserts; Eukaryota; Metagenomics

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; CHAD; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; DUST; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROORGANISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SAND;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872675441     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: 15733025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-012-9264-0     Document Type: Article

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