The Leeuwenhoek Lecture 2000: The natural and unnatural history of methane-oxidizing bacteria

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1458, 2005, Pages 1207-1222

  Dalton, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Greenhouse gas; Methane; Methane monooxygenase; Methane oxidation; Methanotroph

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; METHANE; METHANOTROPHY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; OXIDATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 31344479543     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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