Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 388-394

  Azua Bustos, Armando ^a,b   Caro Lara, Luis ^c   Vicuña, Rafael ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84929295520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12261     Document Type: Article

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