Uranium isotopes fingerprint biotic reduction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5619-5624

  Stylo, Malgorzata ^a   Neubert, Nadja ^b   Wang, Yuheng ^a   Monga, Nikhil ^c   Romaniello, Stephen J ^c   Weyer, Stefan ^b   Bernier Latmani, Rizlan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Biosignature; Isotopes; Paleoredox; Uranium

Indexed keywords

URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238; URANIUM;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; CRETACEOUS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SHEWANELLA; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ECOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALEONTOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEWANELLA; URANIUM; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84928920403     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421841112     Document Type: Article

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