Thioploca spp.: Filamentous sulfur bacteria with nitrate vacuoles

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 301-313

  Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a   Gallardo, Victor A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Nitrate respiration; Phylogeny of sulfur bacteria; Physiology; Sulfide oxidizing bacteria; Thioploca

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; FRESH WATER; NITRATE; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; NITRATE; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BEGGIATOA; CELL RESPIRATION; CELL VACUOLE; ECOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; SULFUR BACTERIUM; THIOPLOCA;

SOUTH AMERICA;

THIOPLOCA;

EID: 0033067617     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(98)00122-6     Document Type: Review

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