Metabolic shifts in hypersaline microbial mats upon addition of organic substrates

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 683-695

  Grötzschel, Stefan ^a   Abed, Raeid M M ^a   De Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLIC ACID; GLYCOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

ACETATES; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLATES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0036862356     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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