Thiomicrospira kuenenii sp. nov. and Thiomicrospira frisia sp. nov., two mesophilic obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria isolated from an intertidal mud flat

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-392

  Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^b   Wirsen, Carl O ^c   Kuever, Jan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Sulfur oxidizing bacteria; Thiomicrospira; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR BACTERIUM; THIOMICROSPIRA FRISIA; THIOMICROSPIRA KUENENII;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES; THIOMICROSPIRA; THIOMICROSPIRA FRISIA; THIOMICROSPIRA KUENENII;

EID: 0032951952     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-49-2-385     Document Type: Article

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