Bacterial community structure in high-arctic snow and freshwater as revealed by pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes and cultivation

Polar Research

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Møller, Annette K ^a   Søborg, Ditte A ^a   Al Soud, Waleed Abu ^b   Sørensen, Søren J ^b   Kroer, Niels ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacterial density; Doc; Microbial assemblages; Taxonomic diversity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CHLOROPLAST; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GENE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RNA; SEA ICE; SNOW; TAXONOMY; CULTIVATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FRESHWATER;

ARCTIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 84891488887     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v32i0.17390     Document Type: Review

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