Bacteria from hydrocarbon seep areas growing on short-chain alkanes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 138-141

  Muyzer, Gerard ^a   van der Kraan, Geert M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; SULFATE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ALKANES; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; FUMARATES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

EID: 47049091198     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2008.01.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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