Exploration of cultivable fungal communities in deep coal-bearing sediments from ∼1.3 to 2.5 km below the ocean floor

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 803-818

  Liu, Chang Hong ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   Xie, Tian Ning ^a   Duan, Ning ^a   Xue, Ya Rong ^a   Zhao, Tan Xi ^a   Lever, Mark A ^b   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^c   Inagaki, Fumio ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; SEA WATER;

CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEA; SEDIMENT;

COAL; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 85013481270     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13653     Document Type: Article

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