Anaerobic oxidation of methane at a marine methane seep in a forearc sediment basin off Sumatra, Indian Ocean

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Siegert, Michael ^a,b   Krüger, Martin ^a   Teichert, Barbara ^a,c   Wiedicke, Michael ^a   Schippers, Axel ^a,b  

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

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

AOM; CARD FISH; DGGE; Hydrocarbon dependent methanogenesis; Methane seep; Quantitative PCR; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOBACTERACEAE; DESULFOCOCCUS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84875486930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00249     Document Type: Article

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