Structured multiple endosymbiosis of bacteria and archaea in a ciliate from marine sulfidic sediments: A survival mechanism in low oxygen, sulfidic sediments?

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Edgcomb, Virginia P ^a   Leadbetter, Edward R ^a   Bourland, William ^b   Beaudoin, David ^a   Bernhard, Joan M ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Ciliate; FISH; SSU rRNA; Symbiosis; TEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863988409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00055     Document Type: Article

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