Microbial life under extreme energy limitation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 83-94

  Hoehler, Tori M ^a   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; CELL POPULATION; DORMANCY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; METABOLIC RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STARVATION; TURNOVER TIME;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84872436756     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2939     Document Type: Review

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