Prokaryotic diversity of arctic ice shelf microbial mats

The prokaryotic diversity and respiratory activity of microbial mat communities on the Markham Ice Shelf and Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in the Canadian high Arctic were analysed. All heterotrophic isolates and> 95% of bacterial 16S rRNA gene clone library sequences from both ice shelves grouped within t...

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Main Authors: Eric M. Bottos, Warwick F. Vincent, Charles W. Greer, Lyle G. Whyte, Département De Biologie
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.517.4407
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