Sulfate-reducing bacteria and their activities in cyanobacterial mats of Solar Lake (Sinai, Egypt)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2943-2951

  Teske, Andreas ^a,d   Ramsing, Niels B ^a,e   Habicht, Kirsten ^a   Fukui, Manabu ^b   Küver, Jan ^a   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a   Cohen, Yehuda ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LAKE WATER; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

ALGAL MAT; CYANOBACTERIUM; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUCTION; STRESS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

EGYPT; SINAI; SOLAR LAKE;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; DESULFONEMA;

EID: 0031903824     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.2943-2951.1998     Document Type: Article

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