Population structure and physiological changes within a hot spring microbial mat community following disturbance

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1367-1374

  Ferris, M J ^a   Nold, S C ^a   Revsbech, N P ^b   Ward, D M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL RESPIRATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; THERMAL SPRING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

CYANOBACTERIA; DISTURBANCE; HOT SPRING; MICROBIAL MAT; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030613231     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1367-1374.1997     Document Type: Article

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