Diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria in oxic and anoxic regions of a microbial mat characterized by comparative analysis of dissimilatory sulfite reductase genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4666-4671

  Minz, Dror ^a,e   Flax, Jodi L ^a   Green, Stefan J ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^b,f   Cohen, Yehuda ^c   Wagner, Michael ^d   Rittmann, Bruce E ^a   Stahl, David A ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SULFITE REDUCTASE;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ANOXIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; GENE SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFONEMA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032884934     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4666-4671.1999     Document Type: Article

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