Microbiology: A microbial arsenic cycle in a salt-saturated, extreme environment

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5726, 2005, Pages 1305-1308

  Oremland, Ronald S ^a   Kulp, Thomas R ^a   Blum, Jodi Switzer ^a   Hoeft, Shelley E ^a   Baesman, Shaun ^a   Miller, Laurence G ^a   Stolz, John F ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; ENZYMES; SEDIMENTS; SLURRIES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ARSENIC CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES; SEDIMENT DEPTH; SEDIMENT SLURRIES;

LAKES;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFIDE; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; BICARBONATE; INORGANIC SALT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARSENIC; SALINE LAKE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HALOBACTERIUM; LAKE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SEARLES LAKE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBACTERIUM;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARSENATES; ARSENITES; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BICARBONATES; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SALTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFIDES; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 19744373169     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1110832     Document Type: Article

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