Dense populations of a giant sulfur bacterium in namibian shelf sediments

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5413, 1999, Pages 493-495

  Schulz, H N ^a   Brinkhoff, T ^b   Ferdelman, T G ^a   Hernandez Marine M ^c   Teske, A ^d   Jorgensen B B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFIDE;

SHELF SEDIMENT; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; UPWELLING;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA; CYTOPLASM; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAMIBIA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES; SULFUR; TERMINOLOGY; VACUOLES;

NAMIBIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; THIOPLOCA;

EID: 0033574742     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5413.493     Document Type: Article

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