Autotrophy of green non-sulphur bacteria in hot spring microbial mats: Biological explanations for isotopically heavy organic carbon in the geological record

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 428-435

  Van Der Meer, Marcel T J ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a   De Leeuw, Jan W ^a   Ward, David M ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER; LIPID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CHLOROBI; CYANOBACTERIUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

BIOFILMS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLOROBI; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYANOBACTERIA; FRESH WATER; LIPIDS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034554784     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2000.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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