Unexpected diversity in populations of the many-celled magnetotactic prokaryote

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 206-215

  Simmons, Sheri L ^a,b   Edwards, Katrina J ^a,c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREIGITE; IRON; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; MAGNETISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; WETLAND;

BIODIVERSITY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IRON; MAGNETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES; WETLANDS;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33846033127     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01129.x     Document Type: Article

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