The burden of independence: Inorganic carbon utilization strategies of the sulphur chemoautotrophic hydrothermal vent isolate Thiomicrospira crunogena and the symbionts of hydrothermal vent and cold seep vestimentiferans

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 379-381

  Scott, Kathleen M ^a,b   Bright, Monika ^c   Fisher, Charles R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIXATION; COLD SEEP ORGANISM; HYDROTHERMAL ORGANISM; SYMBIONT;

EID: 0032467465     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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