Isolation of obligately alkaliphilic magnetotactic bacteria from extremely alkaline environments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2342-2350

  Lefèvre, Christopher T ^a   Frankel, Richard B ^b   Pósfai, Mihály ^c   Prozorov, Tanya ^d   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERUMOXYTOL; RNA 16S; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAGNETOSOME; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FERUMOXYTOL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFATES; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFONATRONUM; DESULFONATRONUM THIODISMUTANS;

EID: 80051944877     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02505.x     Document Type: Article

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