Bacterial dormancy is more prevalent in freshwater than hypersaline lakes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2016, Pages

  Aanderud, Zachary T ^a   Vert, Joshua C ^a   Lennon, Jay T ^b   Magnusson, Tylan W ^a   Breakwell, Donald P ^a   Harker, Alan R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremophiles; Great Salt Lake; Phosphorus; Salinity; Seed banks

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; DORMANCY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84980025206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00853     Document Type: Article

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