Compound-Specific Isotopic Fractionation Patterns Suggest Different Carbon Metabolisms among Chloroflexus-Like Bacteria in Hot-Spring Microbial Mats

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6000-6006

  Van der Meer, Marcel T J ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   De Leeuw, Jan W ^a   Ward, David M ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BIOSYNTHESIS; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; LIPIDS;

LIPID BIOMARKERS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CARBON 13; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ISOTOPE; LIPID; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CHLOROFLEXUS LIKE BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; FRACTIONATION; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL MAT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; SPRING; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; FRESH WATER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEAT; LIPID METABOLISM; MONOSACCHARIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CYANOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0142104395     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6000-6006.2003     Document Type: Article

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