Microbial manganese and sulfate reduction in Black Sea shelf sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2888-2897

  Thamdrup, Bo ^a,b   Rosselló Mora, Ramón ^a,c   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; SULFATE;

CARBON; MANGANESE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SHELF SEDIMENT; SULFATE;

ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; DENMARK; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION; SEA; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; PRECIPITATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROMANIA; SEAWATER; SULFATES;

BLACK SEA;

ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PELOBACTER;

EID: 0033933788     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.7.2888-2897.2000     Document Type: Article

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