Survival and growth of two heterotrophic hydrothermal vent archaea, Pyrococcus strain GB-D and Thermococcus fumicolans, under low pH and high sulfide concentrations in combination with high temperature and pressure regimes

Extremophiles

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 329-342

  Edgcomb, Virginia P ^a   Molyneaux, Stephen J ^a   Böer, Simone ^b   Wirsen, Carl O ^a   Saito, Mak ^a   Atkins, Michael S ^a   Lloyd, Karen ^c   Teske, Andreas ^a,c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Growth; Hyperthermophiles; pH; Pressure; Stress factors; Sulfide; Survival

Indexed keywords

SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PRESSURE; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS;

HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PRESSURE; PYROCOCCUS; SULFIDES; THERMOCOCCUS;

ARCHAEA; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCALES; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS FUMICOLANS;

EID: 33847298563     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0043-0     Document Type: Article

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