Dominant sugar utilizers in sediment of Lake Constance depend on syntrophic cooperation with methanogenic partner organisms

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1501-1511

  Müller, Nicolai ^a   Griffin, Benjamin M ^a   Stingl, Ulrich ^a   Schink, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON DIOXIDE; FRESH WATER; LACTIC ACID; METHANE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SUCCINIC ACID;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHANOSPIRILLUM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ACETATES; AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON DIOXIDE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FERMENTATION; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; LACTIC ACID; METHANE; METHANOSPIRILLUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUCCINIC ACID; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHANOSPIRILLUM HUNGATEI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 43449105579     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01565.x     Document Type: Article

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