Isolation and characterization of a sulfate-reducing bacterium that anaerobically degrades alkanes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2969-2976

  So, Chi Ming ^a   Young, L Y ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; DESULFOCOCCUS; DESULFONEMA; DESULFOSARCINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOCOCCUS; DESULFONEMA; DESULFOSARCINA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0344947890     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.2969-2976.1999     Document Type: Article

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