Isolation and characterization of a mixotrophic sulfur-oxidizing Thermus scotoductus

Extremophiles

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-51

  Skirnisdottir, Sigurlaug ^a,c   Hreggvidsson, Gudmundur O ^a,b   Holst, Olle ^c   Kristiansson, Jakob K ^a,b  

^a Prokaria Ltd   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hot spring; Mixotrophic; Sulfur oxidizing bacteria Thermus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME; SULFATE; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; ICELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; THERMUS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOCHROMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ICELAND; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SULFATES; SULFUR; THERMUS; THIOSULFATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0035257808     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920000172     Document Type: Article

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