Bacterial oxygen production in the dark

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Ettwig, Katharina F ^a   Speth, Daan R ^a   Reimann, Joachim ^a   Wu, Ming L ^a   Jetten, Mike S M ^a   Keltjens, Jan T ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

"Candidatus Methylomirabilis oxyfera"; Chlorate reduction; Chlorite dismutase; Cld; Nitric oxide; Nitric Oxide reductase; Oxygen production; Strain HdN1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875799396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00273     Document Type: Article

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