Increased species diversity and extended habitat range of sulfur- oxidizing Thiomicrospira spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3789-3796

  Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR;

CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; HABITAT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULPHUR-OXIDISING BACTERIA; SULPHUR-OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THIOMICROSPIRA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THIOMICROSPIRA;

EID: 0030793728     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.3789-3796.1997     Document Type: Article

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