Physiological and genomic characterization of arcobacter anaerophilus IR-1 reveals new metabolic features in epsilonproteobacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Roalkvam, Irene ^a   Drønen, Karine ^b   Stokke, Runar ^a   Daae, Frida L ^a   Dahle, Håkon ^a   Steen, Ida H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arcobacter; Epsilonproteobacteria; Ferric citrate reduction; Genomics; Hox hydrogenase; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARCOBACTER; ARCOBACTER ANAEROPHILUS; ARCOBACTER BUTZLERI; ARCOBACTER NITROFIGILIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84949656856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00987     Document Type: Article

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