The microbial sulfur cycle at extremely haloalkaline conditions of soda lakes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Sorokin, Dimitry Y ^a,b   Kuenen, J Gijs ^b   Muyzer, Gerard ^b  

^a WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Soda lakes; Sulfate reducing bacteria; Sulfidogenesis; Sulfur reduction; Sulfur oxidizing bacteria; Thiosulfate reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855300278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00044     Document Type: Article

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