The versatile ε-proteobacteria: Key players in sulphidic habitats

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 458-468

  Campbell, Barbara J ^a   Engel, Annette Summers ^b   Porter, Megan L ^c   Takai, Ken ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HISTORY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LAND BIOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

CARBON; SULFUR;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; SULFUR;

EID: 33646827488     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1414     Document Type: Review

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