Sulfur production by obligately chemolithoautotrophic Thiobacillus species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2300-2305

  Visser, Jan M ^a   Robertson, Lesley A ^a   Van Verseveld, Henk W ^b   Kuenen, J Gijs ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; THIOBACILLUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOTHIOBACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS; THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS SP.;

EID: 0030958371     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2300-2305.1997     Document Type: Article

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