Surprising Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Diversity, Community Structure and Biogeography of Ethiopian Soda Lakes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lanzén, Anders ^a,b,e   Simachew, Addis ^c   Gessesse, Amare ^c   Chmolowska, Dominika ^d   Jonassen, Inge ^a,b   Øvreås, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research AS   (Norway)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DNA; FRESH WATER; MESSENGER RNA; METHANE; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM; RNA; SODIUM; SULFUR;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARBON CYCLING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHIOPIA; EUKARYOTE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PROKARYOTE; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRATIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, GENETIC; ETHIOPIA; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LAKES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84883326200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072577     Document Type: Article

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