Mahoney lake: A case study of the ecological significance of phototrophic sulfur bacteria

Advances in Microbial Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 251-288

  Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

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