Growth and Phylogenetic Characteristics of a Pelagic Marine Bacterium, Alteromonas sp. KE10, Adapted to Low-nutrient Environments

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 209-217

  Maeda, Toshimichi ^a   Yoshinaga, Ikuo ^b   Murakami, Masatada ^a   Shiba, Tsuneo ^a   Ishida, Yuzaburou ^c  

^a NATIONAL FISHERIES UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Alteromonas; growth in dilute low nutrients; pelagic seawater

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009787426     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.14.209     Document Type: Article

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