Methanol improves methane uptake in starved methanotrophic microorganisms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1143-1146

  Jensen, Sigmund ^a   Priemé, Anders ^b   Bakken, Lars ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMIC ACID; METHANE; METHANOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; SOIL;

EID: 0031885231     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.3.1143-1146.1998     Document Type: Article

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