Bacterial communities in the 'petola' microbial mat from the Sečovlje salterns (Slovenia)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-62

  Tkavc, Rok ^a   Gostinčar, Cene ^a   Turk, Martina ^a   Visscher, Pieter T ^b   Oren, Aharon ^c   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clone library; Microbial mats; Petola; Se ovlje saltworks

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRODE; HARVESTING; OXYGEN; POND; SALT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFIDE;

SLOVENIA;

ACINETOBACTER SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 78650003602     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00985.x     Document Type: Article

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