Microbial diversity and community structure across environmental gradients in Bransfield Strait, Western Antarctic Peninsula

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Signori, Camila N ^a,b   Thomas, François ^b,d   Enrich Prast, Alex ^a,c   Pollery, Ricardo C G ^a   Sievert, Stefan M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Climate change; Environmental factors; Microbial community structure; Microbial oceanography; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; SEA LEVEL;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84920676141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00647     Document Type: Article

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