Methane production by phosphate-starved SAR11 chemoheterotrophic marine bacteria

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Carini, Paul ^a,b   White, Angelicque E ^a   Campbell, Emily O ^a   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOETHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; ABC TRANSPORTER; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; METHANE; METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHOSERINE; RIBOSE 5 PHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND;

BACTERIUM; DECOMPOSITION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; PHENOTYPE; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE WATER;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMOHETEROTROPHIC MARINE BACTERIA; CLADISTICS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROTROPHY; HYDROLYSIS; MARINE BACTERIUM; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PELAGIBACTERALES; PHENOTYPE; STARVATION; STOICHIOMETRY; STRESS; UPREGULATION; METABOLISM;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHANE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 84904016205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5346     Document Type: Article

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