Active sulfur cycling by diverse mesophilic and thermophilic microorganisms in terrestrial mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3271-3286

  Green Saxena, A ^b   Feyzullayev, A ^c   Hubert, C R J ^d   Kallmeyer, J ^e   Krueger, M ^f   Sauer, P ^e   Schulz, H M ^g   Orphan, V J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^f FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^g GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; AZERBAIJAN; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOTOMACULUM; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; VOLCANO;

AZERBAIJAN; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOTOMACULUM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFUR; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOBULBACEAE; DESULFOTOMACULUM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84870497949     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12015     Document Type: Article

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