Structural and functional dynamics of sulfate-reducing populations in bacterial biofilms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3731-3739

  Santegoeds, Cecilia M ^a   Ferdelman, Timothy G ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^a,b   De Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROSENSORS; OXYGEN; REDUCTION; RNA; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE REDUCTION;

BACTERIOLOGY;

OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DESULFOVIBRIO; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; REDUCTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFOVIBRIO; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032190359     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.3731-3739.1998     Document Type: Article

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