Distribution and diversity of sulfur-oxidizing Thiomicrospira spp. at a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Aegean Sea (Milos, Greece)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3843-3849

  Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a,c   Sievert, Stefan M ^a   Kuever, Jan ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYDROGENOVIBRIO MARINUS; PROKARYOTA; THIOMICROSPIRA; THIOMICROSPIRA KUENENII;

EID: 0032874213     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3843-3849.1999     Document Type: Article

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