The isolation and initial characterization of mercury resistant chemolithotrophic thermophilic bacteria from mercury rich geothermal springs

Extremophiles

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 469-479

  Chatziefthimiou, Aspassia D ^a   Crespo Medina, Melitza ^a   Wang, Yanping ^a   Vetriani, Costantino ^a   Barkay, Tamar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheolithotrophs; Hot sulfidic springs; Mercury; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; HEAT; MERCURY; PHYLOGENY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES;

EID: 34248338275     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-007-0065-2     Document Type: Article

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