Recent developments in the thermophilic microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Extremophiles

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 85-96

  Miroshnichenko, Margarita L ^a   Bonch Osmolovskaya, Elizaveta A ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deep sea hydrothermal vents; Thermophilic prokaryotes

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEDIMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CELL MEMBRANE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SEAWATER;

AQUIFICAE; AQUIFICAE (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALDITHRIX; DEFERRIBACTERACEAE; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOGLOBUS; IGNICOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; THERMACEAE; THERMODESULFOBACTERIACEAE; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 33645994444     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-005-0489-5     Document Type: Review

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