A genomic island of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough promotes survival under stress conditions while decreasing the efficiency of anaerobic growth

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 981-991

  Johnston, Shawna ^a   Lin, Shiping ^a   Lee, Phoebe ^a   Caffrey, Sean M ^a   Wildschut, Janine ^a   Voordouw, Johanna K ^a   Da Silva, Sofia M ^b   Pereira, Ines A C ^b   Voordouw, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRITE; POLYSULFIDE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NITRITES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS STR. HILDENBOROUGH;

EID: 63849094670     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01823.x     Document Type: Article

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