In situ analysis of sulfate-reducing bacteria related to Desulfocapsa thiozymogenes in the chemocline of meromictic Lake Cadagno (Switzerland)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 820-824

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Microbial Ecology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; SWITZERLAND;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA PROBES; FRESH WATER; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; SWITZERLAND; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOCAPSA THIOZYMOGENES; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033950414     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.2.820-824.2000     Document Type: Article

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