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Archaeal and bacterial communities respond differently to environmental gradients in anoxic sediments of a California hypersaline lake, the Salton Sea.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2010
Swan Brandon K, Ehrhardt Christopher J, Reifel Kristen M, Moreno Lilliana I, Valentine David L
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Sulfidic, anoxic sediments of the moderately hypersaline Salton Sea contain gradients in salinity and carbon that potentially structure the sedimentary microbial community. We investigated the abundance, community structure, and diversity of Bacteria and Archaea along these gradients to further distinguish the ecologies of these domains outside their established physiological range. Quantitative PCR was used to...
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