Chemolithoautotrophic oxidation of thiosulfate, tetrathionate and thiocyanate by a novel rhizobacterium belonging to the genus Paracoccus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 124-131

  Ghosh, Wriddhiman ^a,b   Roy, Pradosh ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Chemolithoautotrophy; Paracoccus; Rhizobacteria; sox genes; Tetrathionate oxidation; Thiocyanate oxidation

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SULFIDE; SULFUR; TETRATHIONIC ACID; THIOCYANATE; THIOSULFATE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; PARACOCCUS THIOCYANATUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDAMINOBACTER SALICYLATOXIDANS; RHIZOSPHERE; TAXONOMY;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PARACOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRATHIONIC ACID; THIOSULFATES; TIME FACTORS;

PARACOCCUS PANTOTROPHUS; PARACOCCUS THIOCYANATUS; PSEUDAMINOBACTER SALICYLATOXIDANS; RHIZOBIALES; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 34247177579     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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