In situ analysis of phototrophic sulfur bacteria in the chernocline of meromictic Lake Cadagno (Switzerland)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1325-1330

  Tonolla, Mauro ^d   Demarta, Antonella ^a   Peduzzi, Raffaele ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Microbial Ecology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIUM; LAKE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMATIUM; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFUR BACTERIUM; SWITZERLAND;

LAKE CADAGNO; SWITZERLAND;

AMOEBOBACTER PURPUREUS; CHROMATIUM OKENII; LAMPROCYSTIS ROSEOPERSICINA;

EID: 0033019695     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.1325-1330.1999     Document Type: Article

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