A three-scale analysis of bacterial communities involved in rocks colonization and soil formation in high mountain environments

Current Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 472-479

  Esposito, Alfonso ^a   Ciccazzo, Sonia ^b   Borruso, Luigimaria ^a   Zerbe, Stefan ^a   Daffonchio, Daniele ^b   Brusetti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacterial communities; Biodiversity; Fingerprinting methods; Glacier foreland; High mountain environments

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES; BIOFILM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FIRMICUTES; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PEDOGENESIS (SOIL); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; ROCK; SEDIMENT;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84883231963     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-013-0391-9     Document Type: Article

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