Diversity and composition of airborne fungal community associated with particulate matters in Beijing during haze and non-haze days

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  Yan, Dong ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Su, Jing ^a   Zhao, Li Li ^a   Wang, Hao ^a   Fang, Xiao Mei ^a   Zhang, Yu Qin ^a   Liu, Hong Yu ^a   Yu, Li Yan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Airborne fungi; Fungal community composition; Haze; High throughput sequencing; PM10; PM2.5; TSP

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADOSPORIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; HAZE; HUMIDITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84966297359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00487     Document Type: Article

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