Methods to Investigate the Global Atmospheric Microbiome.

ABSTRACT: The interplay between microbes and atmospheric physical and chemical conditions is an open field of research that can only be fully addressed using multidisciplinary approaches. The lack of coordinated efforts to gather data at representative temporal and spatial scales limits aerobiology to help understand large scale patterns of global microbial biodiversity and its causal relationships with the environmental context. This paper presents the sampling strategy and analytical protocols developed in order to integrate different fields of research such as microbiology, -omics biology, atmospheric chemistry, physics and meteorology to characterize atmospheric microbial life. These include control of chemical and microbial contaminations from sampling to analysis and identification of experime

SUBMITTER: Dommergue A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6394204 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature