Microbial hitchhikers on intercontinental dust: Catching a lift in Chad

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 850-867

  Favet, Jocelyne ^a   Lapanje, Ales ^b   Giongo, Adriana ^c   Kennedy, Suzanne ^d   Aung, Yin Yin ^a   Cattaneo, Arlette ^a   Davis Richardson, Austin G ^c   Brown, Christopher T ^c   Kort, Renate ^e   Brumsack, Hans Jürgen ^e   Schnetger, Bernhard ^e   Chappell, Adrian ^f   Kroijenga, Jaap ^g   Beck, Andreas ^h,i   Schwibbert, Karin ^j   Mohamed, Ahmed H ^c   Kirchner, Timothy ^c   De Quadros, Patricia Dorr ^c   Triplett, Eric W ^c   Broughton, William J ^a,j   Gorbushina, Anna A ^a,j,k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Physical Biology   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MO BIO Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g Department of Lichenology and Bryology ^*  (Netherlands)

^h BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^k FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

aeolian; high throughput sequencing; Bod l Depression; Republic of Chad; wind erosion

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; DESERT; DUST; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; WIND EROSION; WIND FORCING;

CAPE VERDE; CHAD;

ACACIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; BACILLACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FIRMICUTES; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GEODERMATOPHILACEAE; GLOMEROMYCOTA; HERBASPIRILLUM; MICROSPORIDIA; OXALOBACTERACEAE; POACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIALES; SOLIRUBROBACTERACEAE; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84875366773     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.152     Document Type: Article

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