Isotope fractionation and sulfur metabolism by pure and enrichment cultures of elemental sulfur-disproportionating bacteria

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 253-264

  Canfield, D E ^a,b   Thamdrup, B ^a,b   Fleischer, S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FRACTIONATION; METABOLISM; SEDIMENT; SULPHUR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOBULBUS PROPIONICUS;

EID: 0031844505     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.2.0253     Document Type: Article

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