Low-molecular-weight sulfonates, a major substrate for sulfate reducers in marine microbial mats

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3272-3278

  Visscher, Pieter T ^a   Gritzer, Rachel F ^a   Leadbetter, Edward R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOLIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; SULFIDE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WASTE WATER;

EID: 0032803861     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3272-3278.1999     Document Type: Article

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