A cryptic sulfur cycle in oxygen-minimum-zone waters off the Chilean coast

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6009, 2010, Pages 1375-1378

  Canfield, Don E ^a   Stewart, Frank J ^b   Thamdrup, Bo ^a   De Brabandere, Loreto ^a   Dalsgaard, Tage ^c   Delong, Edward F ^b   Revsbech, Niels Peter ^c   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

COASTAL ZONE; CRYPSIS; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL OCEAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SULFUR CYCLE;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHILE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEASHORE; SULFUR CYCLE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; CHILE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

CHILE;

EID: 78649710753     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1196889     Document Type: Article

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