Nitrogen fixation by reductively dechlorinating bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1078-1083

  Ju, Xiongfei ^a   Zhao, Liping ^a   Sun, Baolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DESULFOVIBRIO; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CHLORINE; DESULFOVIBRIO; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33947152438     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01199.x     Document Type: Article

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