Veil architecture in a sulphide-oxidizing bacterium enhances countercurrent flux

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6691, 1998, Pages 367-369

  Fenchel, Tom ^a   Glud, Ronnie N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; FLOW; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

EID: 0032560752     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28609     Document Type: Article

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