Biogeochemical processes in the saline meromictic Lake Kaiike, Japan: Implications from molecular isotopic evidences of photosynthetic pigments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1009-1016

  Ohkouchi, Naohiko ^a   Nakajima, Yoji ^a,c   Okada, Hisatake ^b   Ogawa, Nanako O ^a   Suga, Hisami ^a   Oguri, Kazumasa ^a   Kitazato, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CARBON; FRESH WATER; NITROGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROBIUM; CHROMATIACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; JAPAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLOROBIUM; CHROMATIACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; JAPAN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROBIUM PHAEOVIBRIOIDES; CHROMATIACEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; HALOCHROMATIUM; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 20444485395     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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