Sulfite oxidation in Chlorobaculum tepidum

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Rodriguez, Jesse ^a,c   Hiras, Jennifer ^a,b   Hanson, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorobi; Qmo complex; Sulfite

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052908148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00112     Document Type: Article

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