Community dynamics of anaerobic bacteria in deep petroleum reservoirs

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 588-591

  Hallmann, Christian ^a,b   Schwark, Lorenz ^a   Grice, Kliti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 60249093389     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo260     Document Type: Article

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