Humics as an electron donor for anaerobic respiration

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-98

  Lovley, Derek R ^a   Fraga, Jocelyn L ^a   Coates, John D ^b   Blunt Harris, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; GEOTHRIX FERMENTANS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS DENITRIFICANS; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ALGAE; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FUMARIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SELENIC ACID; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; METABOLISM;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTHRAQUINONES; ARSENATES; BACTERIA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FUMARATES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033068883     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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