Comment on "early archaean microorganisms preferred elemental sulfur, not sulfate"

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5868, 2008, Pages

  Bao, Huiming ^a   Sun, Tao ^a   Kohl, Issaku ^a   Peng, Yongbo ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

CATALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR CYCLE;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR; SULFUR ISOTOPES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

EID: 40449103508     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151241     Document Type: Note

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6. We acknowledge the Petroleum Research Fund (41374-G2) for financial support.