How stable is stable? Function versus community composition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3697-3704

  Fernández, Ana ^a,e   Huang, Suiying ^a   Seston, Sherry ^a,b   Xing, Jian ^a,c,f   Hickey, Robert ^a,c,d   Criddle, Craig ^a,c,g   Tiedje, James ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EFX Systems ^*  (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d EFX Systems Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^f Global Remediation Technologies   (United States)

^g Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; GLUCOSE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOSARCINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIROCHETE;

EUBACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIUM BRYANTII; METHANOBACTERIUM FORMICICUM; METHANOSARCINA MAZEI; PROPIONIBACTERIUM;

EID: 0344721475     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3697-3704.1999     Document Type: Article

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