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Original Articles

Arsenic-Hypertolerant Pseudomonads Isolated from Ancient Gold and Copper-Bearing Black Shale Deposits

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Pages 357-362 | Received 07 Dec 2007, Accepted 04 Jun 2008, Published online: 16 Oct 2008

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