Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8990-8995

  Chan, Yuki ^a,b   Van Nostrand, Joy D ^c   Zhou, Jizhong ^c,d,e   Pointing, Stephen B ^a   Farrell, Roberta L ^f  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON UTILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY; HETEROTROPHY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON; DNA PROBES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878467207     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300643110     Document Type: Article

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