Metagenomic and satellite analyses of red snow in the Russian Arctic

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Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Hisakawa, Nao ^a   Quistad, Steven D ^a   Hester, Eric R ^a,b   Martynova, Daria ^c,d   Maughan, Heather ^e   Sala, Enric ^f   Gavrilo, Maria V ^d   Rohwer, Forest ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

^d Russian Arctic National Park   (Russian Federation)

^e RONIN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Franz Josef Land; Metagenomics; Phage; Red snow; Snow; Viruses; Watermelon snow

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; AUTOTROPH; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA DETERMINATION; FOOD WEB; HETEROTROPH; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER;

EID: 84950987401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1491     Document Type: Article

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