Adaptation of sympatric Achromatium spp. to different redox conditions as a mechanism for coexistence of functionally similar sulphur bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 669-677

  Gray, Neil D ^a   Comaskey, Daria ^a   Miskin, Ian P ^a   Pickup, Roger W ^b   Suzuki, Keiko ^a   Head, Ian M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRATE; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFUR; WATER;

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; STAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING; SULFUR; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACHROMATIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3042701611     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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