Biodiversity of thermophilic sulfur-reducing bacteria: New substrates and new habitats

Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 563-568

  Miroshnichenko, M L ^a   Kostrikina, N A ^a   Hippe, H ^b   Slobodkin, A I ^a   Bonch Osmolovskaya, E A ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sulfur reduction; Thermal vents; Thermophilic bacteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344679139     PISSN: 00262617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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