Different bulk and active bacterial communities in cryoconite from the margin and interior of the Greenland ice sheet

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 293-300

  Stibal, Marek ^a,b   Schostag, Morten ^b   Cameron, Karen A ^a,b   Hansen, Lars H ^b   Chandler, David M ^c   Wadham, Jemma L ^c   Jacobsen, Carsten S ^a,b,d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84924813963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12246     Document Type: Article

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