Cracking anaerobic bacteria

被引:26
作者
Parkes, J [1 ]
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[1] Univ Bristol, Dept Earth Sci, Bristol BS8 1RJ, Avon, England
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10.1038/45686
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Hydrocarbons such as hexadecane have seemed resistant to bacterial decay to methane. Not so, it turns out, but this bacterial hydrocarbon ‘cracking’ process is very slow.
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