Airborne Bacterial Populations Above Desert Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-128

  Bottos, Eric M ^a   Woo, Anthony C ^b   Zawar Reza, Peyman ^a,c   Pointing, Stephen B ^a,d   Cary, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROSOL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEASON;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84893733589     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0296-y     Document Type: Article

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