Distributions of microbial activities in deep subseafloor sediments

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5705, 2004, Pages 2216-2221

  D'Hondt, Steven ^a,c   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^a   Miller, D Jay ^a   Batzke, Anja ^b   Blake, Ruth ^a   Cragg, Barry A ^a   Cypionka, Heribert ^a   Dickens, Gerald R ^a   Ferdelman, Timothy ^a   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^a   Holm, Nils G ^a   Mitterer, Richard ^a   Spivack, Arthur ^a   Wang, Guizhi ^c   Bekins, Barbara ^a   Engelen, Bert ^b   Ford, Kathryn ^a   Gettemy, Glen ^a   Rutherford, Scott D ^d   Sass, Henrik ^b   Skilbeck, C Gregory ^a   Aiello, Ivano W ^a   Guèrin, Gilles ^a   House, Christopher H ^a   Inagaki, Fumio ^a   Meister, Patrick ^a   Naehr, Thomas ^a   Niitsuma, Sachiko ^a   Parkes, R John ^a   Schippers, Axel ^a   Smith, David C ^a   Teske, Andreas ^a   Wiegel, Juergen ^a   Padilla, Christian Naranjo ^a   Acosta, Juana Luz Solis ^a   more..

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC AQUIFERS; CRUSTAL BIOSPHERE; ELECTRON DONORS; SUBSEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS;

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEAWATER;

SEDIMENTS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; OXYGEN;

DEEP SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REACTION RATE;

AMMONIFICATION; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CELL POPULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY RESOURCE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROFLORA; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEA; SEDIMENT; ZONATION;

BACTERIA; CARBON; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MANGANESE; METHANE; NITRATES; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEAWATER; SULFATES; THERMODYNAMICS;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); WORLD;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 19944399720     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101155     Document Type: Article

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