The microbial ecology of permafrost

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 414-425

  Jansson, Janet K ^a,b,c,d,e   Taş, Neslihan ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GREENHOUSE GAS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOIL ANALYSIS; THAWING; ADAPTATION; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COLD CLIMATE; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLD CLIMATE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84901234745     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3262     Document Type: Review

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