Insights into functional bacterial diversity and its effects on Alpine bog ecosystem functioning

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bragina, Anastasia ^a   Berg, Christian ^b   Müller, Henry ^a   Moser, Daniel ^a   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; OXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SPHAGNOPSIDA;

AUSTRIA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; SPHAGNOPSIDA;

EID: 84885399060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01955     Document Type: Article

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