Niche differentiation among mat-forming, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Geobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 330-348

  Grunke S ^a   Felden, J ^a   Lichtschlag, A ^b   Girnth, A C ^b   De Beer, D ^b   Wenzhofer F ^a   Boetius, A ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; COLD SEEP; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROSCOPY; NICHE OVERLAP; PHYLOGENETICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEAFLOOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR;

ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BEGGIATOA; COLD; ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ARCOBACTER; BEGGIATOA; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); NILE [UGANDA]; UGANDA;

ARCOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEGGIATOA; GORGONACEA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; THIOMARGARITA;

EID: 79959344838     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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