Bacterial Diversity Assessment in Antarctic Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Mats: A Comparison between Bidirectional Pyrosequencing and Cultivation

• Bjorn Tytgat ,

  * E-mail: bjorn.tytgat@ugent.be

  Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Elie Verleyen,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Dagmar Obbels,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Karolien Peeters,

  Current address: Bayer CropScience NV, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

  Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Aaike De Wever,

  Current address: Freshwater Biology, Department for Education and Nature, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Sofie D’hondt,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Tim De Meyer,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Wim Van Criekinge,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Wim Vyverman,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Anne Willems

  Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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