Conceptualizing functional traits and ecological characteristics of methane-oxidizing bacteria as life strategies

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 335-345

  Ho, Adrian ^a,b   Kerckhof, Frederiek Maarten ^a   Luke, Claudia ^b   Reim, Andreas ^b   Krause, Sascha ^c   Boon, Nico ^a   Bodelier, Paul L E ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SHORT SURVEY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHANE; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84876783121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00370.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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