| determining the specific microbial populations and their spatial distribution within the stromatolite ecosystem of shark bay. | the stromatolites at shark bay, western australia, are analogues of some of the oldest evidence of life on earth. the aim of this study was to identify and spatially characterize the specific microbial communities associated with shark bay intertidal columnar stromatolites. conventional culturing methods and construction of 16s rdna clone libraries from community genomic dna with both universal and specific pcr primers were employed. the estimated coverage, richness and diversity of stromatolite ... | 2009 | 19092864 |