Redox cycling of arsenic by the hydrothermal marine bacterium Marinobacter santoriniensis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1601-1611

  Handley, Kim M ^a,b   Héry, Marina ^a   Lloyd, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENITE OXIDASE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MARINOBACTER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; THERMAL SPRING;

ARSENATE REDUCTASES; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; ARSENITES; BASE SEQUENCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOT SPRINGS; MARINOBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MARINOBACTER;

EID: 66649100587     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01890.x     Document Type: Article

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