Production of Dibromomethane and Changes in the Bacterial Community in Bromoform-Enriched Seawater

Takafumi Kataoka1, Atsushi Ooki2, Daiki Nomura2

  • 1Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Fukui Prefectural University.

Microbes and Environments
|February 19, 2019
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