Microbes in deep-sea anoxic basins

Microbiological Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-56

  Brusa, Tullio ^a   Del Puppo, Ennio ^a   Ferrari, Annamaria ^a   Rodondi, Graziella ^a   Andreis, Carlo ^a   Pellegrini, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

anoxic basins; deep sea; halophilic bacteria; hypersaline habitats

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOVIBRIO; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VIBRIO;

EID: 0030984609     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-5013(97)80023-7     Document Type: Article

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