Sulfate-reducing bacteria: A deep biosphere-early life connection?

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-16

  Ollivier, Bernard ^a   Guyot, François ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78649719534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2008.00010.x     Document Type: Note

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