Biomass production and energy source of thermophiles in a japanese alkaline geothermal pool

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 480-489

  Kimura, Hiroyuki ^a   Mori, Kousuke ^a   Nashimoto, Hiroaki ^a   Hattori, Shohei ^b   Yamada, Keita ^b   Koba, Keisuke ^c   Yoshida, Naohiro ^b   Kato, Kenji ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; HOT TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOTHERMOBACTERIUM; HYDROGENOBACTER;

EID: 77649159795     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02089.x     Document Type: Article

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