Enrichment of denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidizing microorganisms

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 377-384

  Hu, Shihu ^a   Zeng, Raymond J ^a   Burow, Luke C ^a,b   Lant, Paul ^a   Keller, Jurg ^a   Yuan, Zhiguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77950280112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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