Stable microbial community composition on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Musilova, Michaela ^a   Tranter, Martyn ^a   Bennett, Sarah A ^b   Wadham, Jemma ^a   Anesio, Alexandre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Aeolian inputs; Cryoconite; Greenland Ice Sheet; Snow; Stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; RNA 16S; SNOW; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTEROIDETES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOCONITE; DEINOCOCCI; DNA EXTRACTION; DUST; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FIRMICUTES; GLACIER; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SEASON; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84927158699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00193     Document Type: Article

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