Microbial secondary succession in soil microcosms of a desert oasis in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  López Lozano, Nguyen E ^a   Heidelberg, Karla B ^b   Nelson, William C ^b   García Oliva, Felipe ^c   Eguiarte, Luis E ^a   Souza, Valeria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coahuila; Cuatro Cienegas Basin; High throughput pyrosequencing; Soil microbial diversity; Succession experiment

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DESERT; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PYROSEQUENCING; SECONDARY SUCCESSION (COMMUNITY); SOIL MICROFLORA;

EID: 84877148330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.47     Document Type: Article

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