Biogeochemical and Molecular Signatures of Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in a Marine Sediment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1646-1656

  Thomsen, Trine R ^a,b   Finster, Kai ^a   Ramsing, Niels B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; METHANE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; DENMARK; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SULFUR; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

EID: 0035316138     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1646-1656.2001     Document Type: Article

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