Characterization of Thiobacillus thioparus LV43 and its distribution in a chemoautotrophically based groundwater ecosystem

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3123-3127

  Vlasceanu, Luminita ^a   Popa, Radu ^a   Kinkle, Brian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

CAVE; CHEMOANTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; MICROBIAL MAT; SULPHUR-OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THIOBACILLUS;

MOVILE CAVE; ROMANIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOTHIOBACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS; NEGIBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS; THIOBACILLUS THIOPARUS; THIOMICROSPIRA; THIOMICROSPIRA SP.;

EID: 0030872086     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.8.3123-3127.1997     Document Type: Article

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