Diversity of Iron Oxidizing and Reducing Bacteria in Flow Reactors in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 207-220

  Ionescu, Danny ^a,b   Heim, Christine ^c   Polerecky, Lubos ^a,d   Ramette, Alban ^a   Haeusler, Stefan ^a   Bizic Ionescu, Mina ^a,b   Thiel, Volker ^c   De Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

biogeochemical cycling; community structure; iron oxidation; iron reduction; subsurface microbiology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; IRON; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84926310673     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2014.884196     Document Type: Article

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