Microbial and functional diversity within the phyllosphere of Espeletia species in an Andean high-mountain ecosystem

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1807-1817

  Ruiz Pérez, Carlos A ^a,b,c   Restrepo, Silvia ^b,c   Zambrano, María Mercedes ^a,b  

^a Genomics and Evolution of Communities of Environmental Microorganisms   (Colombia)

^b Colombian Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics of Extreme Environments ^*  (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; SOILS;

FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGIES; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HERB; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHYLLOSPHERE; RHIZOSPHERE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANDES;

ESPELETIA; OTUS; MICROBIOTA;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; ASTERACEAE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ARCHAEA; ASTERACEAE; BACTERIA; BIOTA; COLOMBIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PLANT LEAVES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84961285382     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02781-15     Document Type: Article

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