The bacteria and bacteriophages from a Mesquite Flats site of the Death Valley desert

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1329-1341

  Prestel, Eric ^a,b   Regeard, Christophe ^a   Salamitou, Sylvie ^a   Neveu, Julie ^a   Dubow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Bacteria; Bacteriophages; Desert; Electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA 16S; MITOMYCIN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DESERT; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SAND; VIRUS LIKE AGENT;

BACILLUS; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CAUDOVIRALES; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CAUDOVIRALES; PROSOPIS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84878313494     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9914-4     Document Type: Article

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