The ecological niche of the consortium 'Pelochromatium roseum'

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 120-128

  Overmann, Jörg ^a   Tuschak, Christian ^a   Fröstl, Jürgen M ^a   Sass, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Inst Gewasserokologie B   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Chlorochromatium'; 'Pelochromatium'; Chlorobiaceae; Green sulfur bacteria; Phototrophic consortia; Sulfur cycle; Syntrophy

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER; SULFUR;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; CHROMATIUM; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031911685     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050551     Document Type: Article

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