Dense population of a giant sulfur bacterium in Namibian shelf sediments

A previously unknown giant sulfur bacterium is abundant in sediments underlying the oxygen minimum zone of the Benguela Current upwelling system. The bacterium has a spherical cell that exceeds by up to 100-fold the biovolume of the largest known prokaryotes. On the basis of 16S ribosomal DNA sequen...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1999-04, Vol.284 (5413), p.493-495
Hauptverfasser:	Schulz, H N, Brinkhoff, T, Ferdelman, T G, Hernandez Marine, M, Teske, A, Joergensen, B B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bacteria Marine Thioploca
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