Phylogenetic affiliation and quantification of psychrophilic sulfate- reducing isolates in marine Arctic sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3976-3981

  Sahm, Kerstin ^a,b   Knoblauch, Christian ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032851739     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3976-3981.1999     Document Type: Article

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