Evidence for successional development in Antarctic hypolithic bacterial communities

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2080-2090

  Makhalanyane, Thulani P ^a,b   Valverde, Angel ^a,b   Birkeland, Nils Kåre ^c   Cary, Stephen C ^d   Marla Tuffin, I ^a   Cowan, Don A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctica; community assembly; hypoliths; pyrosequencing; soil; succession; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SUCCESSION;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TIME;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84886729610     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.94     Document Type: Article

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