Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) Accretion Ice Contains a Diverse Set of Sequences from Aquatic, Marine and Sediment-Inhabiting Bacteria and Eukarya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Shtarkman, Yury M ^a   Koçer, Zeynep A ^a   Edgar, Robyn ^a   Veerapaneni, Ram S ^a   D'Elia, Tom ^a   Morris, Paul F ^a   Rogers, Scott O ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ICE; MESSENGER RNA;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTARCTICA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; LAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHROPHILIC BACTERIUM; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; THERMOACIDOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; ICE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84879745242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067221     Document Type: Article

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