Microbial diversity in Calamita ferromagnetic sand

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 483-490

  Perfumo, Amedea ^a,b   Cockell, Charles ^c   Elsaesser, Andreas ^b   Marchant, Roger ^b   Kminek, Gerhard ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMUS; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM; VARIOVORAX;

EID: 80051915956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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