Hydrogen-dependent oxygen reduction by homoacetogenic bacteria isolated from termite guts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 779-786

  Bogat, Hamadi I ^a,b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SUBSTRATES;

CELL SUSPENSIONS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

HYDROGEN; OXYGEN;

BACTERIUM;

ACETOBACTER; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTESTINE; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRESSURE; REDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HYDROGEN; ISOPTERA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN;

ACETOBACTER; ACETOBACTERIUM; ACETOBACTERIUM WOODII; ACETONEMA LONGUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ISOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA; SPOROMUSA; SPOROMUSA TERMITIDA;

EID: 0037313265     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.779-786.2003     Document Type: Article

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