Anaerobic oxidation of o-xylene, m-xylene, and homologous alkylbenzenes by new types of sulfate-reducing bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 999-1004

  Harms, Gerda ^a   Zengler, Karsten ^a   Rabus, Ralf ^a,b   Aeckersberg, Frank ^a,c   Minz, Dror ^a,d   Rosselló Mora, Ramon ^a   Widdel, Friedrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLBENZENE; META XYLENE; ORTHO XYLENE; PETROLEUM; RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ASSAY; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

DESULFOBACTERIUM CETONICUM; DESULFOCOCCUS MULTIVORANS; DESULFOSARCINA VARIABILIS;

EID: 0032987149     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.999-1004.1999     Document Type: Article

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