Microaerobic and anaerobic metabolism of a Methylocystis parvus strain isolated from a denitrifying bioreactor

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 442-449

  Vecherskaya, Margarita ^a   Dijkema, Cor ^a   Saad, Hugo Ramírez ^a,b   Stams, Alfons J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOCYSTIS PARVUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77953120774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00069.x     Document Type: Article

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