Matrix composition and community structure analysis of a novel bacterial pyrite leaching community

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2329-2338

  Ziegler, Sibylle ^a   Ackermann, Sonia ^a   Majzlan, Juraj ^a   Gescher, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PYRITE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLISM; MINING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; MINING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SULFIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOSPIRILLUM;

EID: 69949087390     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01959.x     Document Type: Article

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