Diversity of thermophilic anaerobes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1125, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-43

  Wagner, Isaac D ^a   Wiegel, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobe; Archaea; Bacteria; Diversity of anaerobic thermophiles; Thermobiotic; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

OXIDE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 41349115515     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1419.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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