Aerobic microbial respiration in oceanic oxygen minimum zones

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Kalvelage, Tim ^a,f   Lavik, Gaute ^a   Jensen, Marlene M ^a,g   Revsbech, Niels Peter ^b   Löscher, Carolin ^c   Schunck, Harald ^c,d   Desai, Dhwani K ^d,h   Hauss, Helena ^d   Kiko, Rainer ^d   Holtappels, Moritz ^a   Laroche, Julie ^d   Schmitz, Ruth A ^c   Graco, Michelle I ^e   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^h DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEA WATER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; OXIDASE GENE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PERU; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER SAMPLING; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEA;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION; METAGENOME; NAMIBIA; OCEANS AND SEAS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERU; SEAWATER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84941761213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133526     Document Type: Article

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