Biochemical, genetic and genomic characterization of anaerobic electron transport pathways in sulphate-reducing Delta proteobacteria

Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria: Environmental and Engineered Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 215-240

  Pereira, Inês A C ^a   Haveman, Shelley A ^b   Voordouw, Gerrit ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541490.008     Document Type: Chapter

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