Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3398-3415

  Wilbanks, Elizabeth G ^a   Jaekel, Ulrike ^b,c   Salman, Verena ^d   Humphrey, Parris T ^e   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a   Facciotti, Marc T ^a,f   Buckley, Daniel H ^g   Zinder, Stephen H ^g   Druschel, Gregory K ^h   Fike, David A ⁱ   Orphan, Victoria J ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Shell Technology Norway   (Norway)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

^f University of California   (United States)

^g Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

BACTERIUM; CHROMATIACEAE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; WETLAND;

BACTERIA; CHROMATIACEAE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR; WETLANDS;

EID: 84912025634     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12388     Document Type: Article

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