Bacterial Diversity of Surface Sand Samples from the Gobi and Taklamaken Deserts

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 850-860

  An, Shu ^a   Couteau, Cécile ^a   Luo, Fan ^a   Neveu, Julie ^a   DuBow, Michael S ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; OTUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84885939690     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0276-2     Document Type: Article

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