Characterization of eukaryotic microbial diversity in hypersaline lake tyrrell, australia

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Heidelberg, Karla B ^a   Nelson, William C ^a   Holm, Johanna B ^a   Eisenkolb, Nadine ^a   Andrade, Karen ^b   Emerson, Joanne B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Colpodella; Diversity; Dunaliella; Hypersaline; Microbial eukaryotes; Saltern

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ALVEOLATA; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHROMALVEOLATA; DUNALIELLA; EUKARYOTE; EXCAVATA; GREEN ALGA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPISTHOKONTA; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAMENOPILE; SUMMER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER SAMPLING; WINTER;

APICOMPLEXA; COLPODELLA; COLPODELLA EDAX; DUNALIELLA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84880094479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00115     Document Type: Article

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