Microbial consumption of zero-valence sulfur in marine benthic habitats

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3416-3430

  Pjevac, Petra ^a   Kamyshny, Alexey ^b   Dyksma, Stefan ^a   Mußmann, Marc ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SULFATE; SULFUR;

BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

BIOFILMS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SULFATES; SULFUR;

EID: 84912044142     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12410     Document Type: Article

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