Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6835, 2001, Pages 298-302

  Dubiller, Nicole ^a   Mülders, Caroline ^a   Ferdelman, Tim ^a   De Beer, Dirk ^a   Pernthaler, Annelle ^a   Klein, Michael ^b   Wagner, Michael ^b   Erséus, Christer ^c   Thiermann, Frank ^d   Krieger, Jens ^d   Glere, Olav ^d   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ECOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; TISSUE;

SYMBIONTS;

BACTERIA;

SULFATE; SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; ENERGY RESOURCE; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROBIOSIS; AGAR; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SILICON DIOXIDE; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METAZOA; OLAVIUS ALGARVENSIS;

EID: 0342960381     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35077067     Document Type: Article

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