Microbial diversity and biogeochemical cycling in soda lakes

Extremophiles

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 791-809

  Sorokin, Dimitry Y ^a,b   Berben, Tom ^c   Melton, Emily Denise ^c   Overmars, Lex ^c   Vavourakis, Charlotte D ^c   Muyzer, Gerard ^c  

^a WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycling; Haloalkaliphile; Halophile; Meta omics; Soda lake; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

METHANE; SULFUR;

CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NITROGEN CYCLE; SALT TOLERANCE;

CARBON CYCLE; LAKES; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; NITROGEN CYCLE; SALT-TOLERANCE; SULFUR;

EID: 84920497948     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0670-9     Document Type: Review

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