Analysis of subfossil molecular remains of purple sulfur bacteria in a lake sediment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4513-4521

  Coolen, Marco J L ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ELECTROKINESIS; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PIGMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; LAKE MAHONEY;

AMOEBOBACTER PURPUREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIACEAE; CHROMATIUM; LAMPROCYSTIS PURPUREA; PROKARYOTA; THIOCAPSA;

EID: 0031763993     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4513-4521.1998     Document Type: Article

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