Recovering greater fungal diversity from pristine and diesel fuel contaminated sub-antarctic soil through cultivation using both a high and a low nutrient media approach

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Ferrari, Belinda C ^a   Zhang, Chengdong ^a   van Dorst, Josie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fungi; Hydrocarbon degradation; Novel cultivation; Soil; Sub antarctic

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84875523940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00217     Document Type: Article

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