Revealing the unexplored fungal communities in deep groundwater of crystalline bedrock fracture zones in Olkiluoto, Finland

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Sohlberg, Elina ^a   Bomberg, Malin ^a   Miettinen, Hanna ^a   Nyyssönen, Mari ^a   Salavirta, Heikki ^a   Vikman, Minna ^a   Itävaara, Merja ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Crystalline bedrock fracture; Deep biosphere; Fennoscandian shield; Fungal communities; High throughput sequencing

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINLAND; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DOTHIDEOMYCETES; EUKARYOTA; EUROTIOMYCETES; FUNGI; SORDARIOMYCETES;

EID: 84936998890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00573     Document Type: Article

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