Wave-induced H2S flux sustains a chemoautotrophic symbiosis

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 128-133

  Vopel, Kay ^a   Thistle, David ^b   Ott, Jörg ^c   Bright, Monika ^c   Røy, Hans ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CILIATE; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WAVE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; ZOOTHAMNIUM; ZOOTHAMNIUM NIVEUM;

EID: 13444257988     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.1.0128     Document Type: Article

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