Activity and bacterial diversity of snow around russian antarctic stations

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 164, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 949-958

  Lopatina, Anna ^a   Krylenkov, Vjacheslav ^b   Severinov, Konstantin ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Antarctica; Bacterial diversity; Psychrophiles; Snow

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; JANTHINOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS; TAXONOMY; VARIOVORAX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); JANTHINOBACTERIUM; OTUS; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS; VARIOVORAX;

16S RDNA; ANTARCTICA; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; PSYCHROPHILES; SNOW;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNOW;

EID: 84885304716     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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