Impact of carbon metabolism on 13C signatures of cyanobacteria and green non-sulfur-like bacteria inhabiting a microbial mat from an alkaline siliceous hot spring in Yellowstone National Park (USA)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 482-491

  Van Der Meer, Marcel T J ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a   Ward, David M ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM BICARBONATE; CARBON; GLUCOSE; LIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROFLEXI; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THERMAL SPRING; UNITED STATES;

BICARBONATES; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHLOROFLEXI; GLUCOSE; HOT SPRINGS; LIPIDS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 33846103833     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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