Eukaryotic diversity at pH extremes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Amaral Zettler, Linda A ^a,b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidophiles; Alkaliphiles; Indicator OTU analysis; Protists; Pyrosequencing; V9

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875880805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00441     Document Type: Article

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