Anaerobic biodegradation of pristane by a marine sedimentary bacterial and/or archaeal community

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2000, Pages 769-772

  Grossi, Vincent ^a   Raphel, Danielle ^a   Hirschler Réa, Agnes ^a   Gilewicz, Michèle ^a   Mouzdahir, Abdelkrim ^b   Bertrand, Jean Claude ^a   Rontani, Jean François ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Anaerobic biodegradation; Biomarkers; Methanogenesis; Mixed bacterial archaeal community; Pristane; Recent sediments

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BIODEGRADATION; METHANOGENESIS;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; METHANE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NITRATE; PRISTANE; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SLURRY;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKERS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKER; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; PRISTANE;

EID: 0034233436     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(00)00060-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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