Big bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 105-137

  Schulz, H N ^a   Jorgensen B B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Diffusion; Diffusive boundary layer; Prokaryote cell size; Sulfide oxidizing bacteria

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITRATE; OXYGEN; SULFATE;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CELL SIZE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; ECOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EPULOPISCIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SULFUR BACTERIUM; THIOMARGARITA NAMIBIENSIS; THIOVULUM MAJUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHEMOTAXIS; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFUR; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPULOPISCIUM; EPULOPISCIUM SP.; PROKARYOTA; THIOMARGARITA NAMIBIENSIS; THIOVULUM;

EID: 0034769803     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.105     Document Type: Review

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