Potential drivers of microbial community structure and function in Arctic spring snow

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Maccario, Lorrie ^a   Vogel, Timothy M ^a   Larose, Catherine ^a  

^a Univ Claude Bernard Lyon1   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic; Cryosphere; Metagenomic; Microbial adaptation; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BIODEGRADATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84987817656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00413     Document Type: Article

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