A new chemolithoautotrophic arsenite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a gold mine: Phylogenetic, physiological, and preliminary biochemical studies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 92-97

  Santini, Joanne M ^a   Sly, Lindsay I ^b   Schnagl, Roger D ^a   Macy, Joan M ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AGROBACTERIUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0033987849     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.1.92-97.2000     Document Type: Article

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