A novel thermophilic methane-oxidising γ-Proteobacterium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 335-341

  Bodrossy, Levente ^a,b   Kovács, Kornél L ^a,b   McDonald, Ian R ^c   Murrell, J Colin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Methylothermus'; 16S rRNA phylogeny; Methanotroph; Particulate methane monooxygenase gene; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

EID: 0344699342     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00552-7     Document Type: Article

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