Influence of soil properties on archaeal diversity and distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 347-359

  Richter, Ingrid ^a   Herbold, Craig W ^a   Lee, Charles K ^a   McDonald, Ian R ^a   Barrett, John E ^b   Cary, Stephen C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic soils; Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Pyrosequencing; Thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; EURYARCHAEOTA; OTUS;

ADAPTATION; ANTARCTIC SOILS; ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; DESICCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PYROSEQUENCING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL; THAUMARCHAEOTA;

ANTARCTIC SOILS; ARCHAEA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PYROSEQUENCING; THAUMARCHAEOTA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; DESICCATION; EURYARCHAEOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84905377793     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12322     Document Type: Article

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