Seasonal changes in the relative abundance of uncultivated sulfate- reducing bacteria in a salt marsh sediment and in the rhizosphere of Spartina alterniflora

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3895-3901

  Rooney Varga, Juliette N ^a,c   Devereux, Richard ^b   Evans, Robert S ^a   Hines, Mark E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

ABUNDANCE; RHIZOSPHERE; SALT MARSHES; SALTMARSH SEDIMENT; SEASONALITY; SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOCOCCUS MULTIVORANS; DESULFOSARCINA VARIABILIS; POACEAE; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0030753340     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.3895-3901.1997     Document Type: Article

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