Metagenomic analysis of a southern maritime Antarctic soil

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Pearce, David A ^a   Newsham, Kevin K ^a   Thorne, Michael A S ^a   Calvo Bado, Leo ^b   Krsek, Martin ^b,d   Laskaris, Paris ^b,e   Hodson, Andy ^c   Wellington, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Antarctica; Bacteria; Metagenomics; Polar; Soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875828860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00403     Document Type: Article

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