Substrate degradation kinetics, microbial diversity, and current efficiency of microbial fuel cells supplied with marine plankton

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7029-7040

  Reimers, Clare E ^a   Stecher III, Hilmar A ^a   Westall, John C ^a   Alleau, Yvan ^a   Howell, Kate A ^a   Soule, Leslie ^a   White, Helen K ^b   Girguis, Peter R ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

DEGRADATION KINETICS; MARINE PLANKTONS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

FUEL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUEL CELL; KINETICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KINETICS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PLANKTON; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; ZOOPLANKTON;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOREACTORS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KINETICS; PLANKTON; SEAWATER;

BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 35948974364     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01209-07     Document Type: Article

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