Quantification of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing microbial communities in biogas processes

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 500-505

  Westerholm, Maria ^a   Dolfing, Jan ^b   Sherry, Angela ^b   Gray, Neil D ^b   Head, Ian M ^b   Schnürer, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ULTUNENSE; METHANOSAETACEAE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; THERMACETOGENIUM PHAEUM;

EID: 80051927166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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