The ecology and biotechnology of sulphate-reducing bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 441-454

  Muyzer, Gerard ^a   Stams, Alfons J M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; SULFATE; ZINC SULFIDE;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON CYCLE; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FLUE GAS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENOMICS; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; METHANOGEN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CORROSION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SULFATE REDUCER; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR CYCLE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SULFATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 43849095105     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1892     Document Type: Review

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