Bacteria in post-glacial freshwater sediments

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2427-2439

  Miskin, Lan ^a,c   Rhodes, Glenn ^a,b   Lawlor, Kirsten ^a,d   Saunders, Jon R ^a   Pickup, Roger W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freshwater sediments; Subsurface bacteria; Survival; Viability

Indexed keywords

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; ACETOACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DENITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3543097968     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-9-2427     Document Type: Article

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