Growth, natural relationships, cellular fatty acids and metabolic adaptation of sulfate-reducing bacteria that utilize long-chain alkanes under anoxic conditions

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 361-369

  Aeckersberg, Frank ^a,c   Rainey, Fred A ^b,d   Widdel, Friedrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkane activation; Alkenes; Anaerobic alkane oxidation; Cyclodextrin; Fatty acids; Sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ALKENE; ALPHA CYCLODEXTRIN; FATTY ACID; HEXADECANE; HYDROCARBON; RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIODEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALKANES; ALKENES; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYCLODEXTRINS; FATTY ACIDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031694750     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050654     Document Type: Article

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