Hypolithic cyanobacteria supported mainly by fog in the coastal range of the Atacama Desert.

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Published in Microb Ecol on December 29, 2010

Authors

Armando Azúa-Bustos1, Carlos González-Silva, Rodrigo A Mancilla, Loreto Salas, Benito Gómez-Silva, Christopher P McKay, Rafael Vicuña

Author Affiliations

1: Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. ajazua@uc.cl

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